Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 2 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 3 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 4 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 5 | Any asylum seeker brought with him the possibility of retribution against the shrine and its local town or city from his enemies , as Gregory discovered on a number of occasions . |
| 6 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 7 | A relieved Russian establishment conferred upon him the title of ‘ the Blessed ’ . |
| 8 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |
| 9 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 10 | The alternative was to wait a further two or three years until a civil case could reach a hearing in the overcrowded Northern Ireland courts and then to endeavour to fight it with the state using against him the formidable privileges and stratagems available to it . |
| 11 | As soon as the door closed behind him the WAAF tiptoed over to me . |
| 12 | The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he 's obsessed with lived . |
| 13 | Before Peter leaves the ward the doctor explains to him the regime of drugs which are to be prescribed . |
| 14 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 15 | Sister discusses with him the possibility of getting help from his General Practitioner and also points out to him that there may be support groups in his locality for people who wish to give up smoking or classes to learn relaxation techniques which may be helpful . |
| 16 | This reversion to Peronism represents to him the contradiction that runs through Argentina . |
| 17 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |
| 18 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 19 | But the lute remains for him the most satisfying instrument to make : shaping the huge bowl-shaped backs is ‘ kinda wondrous ’ . |
| 20 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |