Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] him a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and knit a jumper for Michael an'all , when Michael 's in she knits him a jumper , the jumper |
| 2 | But she calls him a friend , and I have no objections . |
| 3 | I hope she gives him a right going over . ’ |
| 4 | She gives him a tin of Coke ( line 32 ) . |
| 5 | She gives him a snack ( line 15 ) . |
| 6 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 7 | If Hong Kong ever does achieve democracy , it will owe Mr Lee a monument : for the time being , it owes him a holiday . |
| 8 | Too many women have been brain-washed for centuries in to accepting the old saying : 'A son 's a son till he gets him a wife , but a daughter 's a daughter all her life . ’ |
| 9 | It takes him a minute to realize what it is . |
| 10 | It takes him a moment to regain his composure . |
| 11 | It annoys him a lot , I think , but that 's the way things go . |
| 12 | So he gives him a pint of water , he goes and sits with the other ones . |
| 13 | He gives him a petrol account and then he sa he 's started in the building . |
| 14 | Brian Tustian , who has farmed organically for five years is looking forward to the opportunity of dealing with his customers personally : it gives him a chance to put the case for organic produce himself , and he can cope better with the variable quantity of his supplies at a market . |
| 15 | Agnew , however , is not certain that he wants to uproot his family — even if it gives him a chance to resurrect his career . |
| 16 | If we expect that much , it gives Him a chance to work . ’ |
| 17 | tangle it , just trying to tangle it up , cos the idea being if he gets round a weed , often enough he go that means , basically it gives him a lever , I mean they 're very clever you know , these fish , they 're not , they do n't just sort of sit there and wait . |
| 18 | I mean and and he he feels that er pressure groups like ourselves are very positive because it gives him a bit of weight when he 's arguing for things . |
| 19 | I play each whirr the dial made as it wound back , I clunk the recorder switches , I fidget with the stopwatch , and it gives him a pain between the eyes . |
| 20 | This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about . |
| 21 | Other artists and movements are consistently denigrated , presumably to inflate Epstein 's stature though it does him a disservice . |