Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] him the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , by incorporation into him the two have become one new humanity .
2 yeah — i talk to him the next time i see him ; - ) ( joke ! — well i stayed at the same hotel as the norw. players before our game against england and actually talked to a couple of players … the next time i will have a chat with leeds-fan rekdal ; - ) i will however forward your wishes of luck if/when i write to the supporters club .
3 Just ring him up and have lunch with him the next day and it 'll be all right . ’
4 But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's .
5 On the shelf below him the old man was vomiting again , too weak even to roll over so that blood and mucus oozed down his chin and neck , some of it bubbling back into his throat .
6 The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted .
7 I kept my eye on him the whole time . ’
8 He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day .
9 She would be the first to know , then he would throw a party to tell his friends who had graduated from the Red Army Academy with him the previous year .
10 ‘ I — had a word with him the other day .
11 so he said it 's across the board put four thousand quid 's worth off him the other day and I only give fifty pence off he said so I ca n't do much for you .
12 It was a sound which had sent a thrill through him the first time he had heard it .
13 All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again .
14 Writers such as Aristotle , and a century before him the so-called Old Oligarch — both unsympathetic to democracy — naturally used terms such as " the virtuous " , " the noble " , " the best " , " the few " , " the notable , " the wealthy " , almost interchangeably , and contrasted this elite group with another , called variously " the mob " , " the poor " , " the mass " , " the worse " , and so on .
15 I had a go at him the other week using a fucking hire car !
16 In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box .
17 In front of him the two men had separated , reacted to the shout , and then to the sight of the gun .
18 In fact I had dinner with him the other night … ’
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