Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Cecil evidently rebuffed Sir Arthur Gorges when the latter sent him a present in 1603 , for Gorges wrote in a hurt tone that he had only followed ‘ the common custom and usual compliment of the time ’ . |
| 2 | Two birdies in his first three holes and another at the sixth gave him a flying start but it was not all so straightforward . |
| 3 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 4 | Ted Owens was one of the stalwarts of Crystal Palace FC during the inter-war period , when his resolute performances at right-back during the latter half of the 1930s made him a firm favourite . |
| 5 | But the Sixties gave him a background to emerge from ; in fact , he wrote part of the script for the age and it never left him ; he did n't allow it to leave him . |
| 6 | A missed downhill three-footer at the 18th denied him a red round . |