Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 2 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 3 | But a boardroom vote of six to one in favour was not enough to secure him the position . |
| 4 | But when he sent his ambassador to see if she were indeed as beautiful as men told , the Venetians would only show him the princess at nightfall , in an unlighted room . |
| 5 | But as he had , I could only give him the answer he needed , without knowing for sure whether it was true or not . |
| 6 | Wallace and Deane look like the ideal combination as once they start passing to wallace it makes space for deane to also run into space so give HIM the variety too . |
| 7 | The owner of one of the most spiritual voices in music , he 's seen success beckon before only to give him the finger once he started to trust . |
| 8 | It is not enough to give him the facts . |
| 9 | ‘ The Prince was perhaps showing him the sights ? ’ |
| 10 | Garway 's resistance to exclusion perhaps earned him the respect of the government of James II . |
| 11 | Maybe he just did n't think when they showed him it , that it was n't the right one cos I suppose if you 've seen them every day you do n't , it does n't register it 's just the fact that of course your dad only gave him the price of the blue and white |
| 12 | Steve Smith , the 19-year-old Liverpool high jumper , smashed his British and Commonwealth indoor record with 2.37m , but it was only enough to earn him the bronze . |
| 13 | If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence . |
| 14 | Then the pale spillage from streetlights seeped back again , barely enough to show him the gun when he pointed it . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ When he was Chancellor Nigel Lawson made mistakes in his last Budget which eventually cost him the job . |
| 16 | Now , for more important brokers , what tends to happen is , er the Direct Marketing Manager , my boss will go out and meet these brokers , and er , effectively cost him the earth , erm . |
| 17 | Moving to Guildford , Leese 's fanaticism and his willingness to devote all his time and resources to the new movement soon made him the fulcrum of racial nationalist activity in Britain . |
| 18 | If he 's her lawyer , perhaps she 's already given him the photograph . |
| 19 | And it 's that devotion that 's just won him the title of Britains most romantic top tycoon . |
| 20 | highways and that sort of thing , and he does go to Farnsfield , and he does go to Oxford and back , and really all you need do is just send him , you need n't send him the minutes here , you just send him the notice of the meeting |
| 21 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 22 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 23 | When , at the end of two hours , they finally showed him the document and he acknowledged what had happened , ‘ there was a sigh from the assembled people . ’ |
| 24 | No servant should be at liberty to carry it off to a rival in trade and thus save him the expense and expertise of doing it himself " . |
| 25 | ‘ Just give him the message , ’ she said wearily . |
| 26 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 27 | just tell him the truth . |
| 28 | In the end , I judged the best option to be to talk in the privacy of his room , thus giving him the opportunity to ponder his new situation in solitude once I took my leave . |
| 29 | When the Company 's lease expired in 1892 , Lancaster 's services as manager were retained , thus giving him the distinction of being the first electric street tramway Manager , and upon his death the longest-serving . |
| 30 | Sweet and Quine both played guitar for Lloyd Cole back in 1990 — Sweet live , and Quine live and on the record — but while Lloyd Cole kept Quine on a leash , refining his parts and cutting and reconstructing his solos , Sweet just tosses him the keys and lets him rip . |