Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped my action in sending him the book would place him under a sense of obligation . |
| 2 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |
| 3 | The 26-year-old University of Natal graduate , credited his god with giving him the concentration he needed for his marathon . |
| 4 | The editor of the Church of England Newspaper remarked that the overzealousness of Ramsey 's friends did him a disservice by making him the representative of an intolerant school of thought and by inflating his reputation beyond what his record would endorse . |
| 5 | He sued Jax Liquor Store for selling him the booze . |
| 6 | The feoffees for impropriations came to his rescue by offering him the vicarage of All Saints ' , Hertford ( where the millenarian Christopher Feake , q.v. , was later to serve ) . |
| 7 | However she was honest enough to feel that , as she had begun the courting by sending him the valentine , she ought not to refuse him now . |
| 8 | The last thing she wanted , now that she had gained a small advantage , was to blow that advantage by telling him the truth . |
| 9 | He had tried to beat his son into giving him the respect he was unable to feel for himself . |
| 10 | I did not see the value in teaching him the English equivalents of these words , and merely reminded him to talk in English . |