Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] him a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've told my son that I am going to get him a forged passport that will get him into the opposition penalty area . |
| 2 | Democrats are hence navigating , as one of them put it , between the Scylla of not wishing to undercut Mr Bush 's diplomacy and the Charybdis of not wishing to give him a blank cheque . |
| 3 | As the weeks went by , Noreen was thrown more and more together with him , but nothing happened , and even Maria was learning to like him a little bit . |
| 4 | I looked back at him , trying to give him a dirty look but him and de Haas were just grinning at me . ’ |
| 5 | In truth , I was just hoping to give him a good game . ’ |
| 6 | In truth , I was just hoping to give him a good game . ’ |
| 7 | By agreeing to give him a right one purports to confer it on him , or one promises to do so in the future ( the expression is ambiguous ) . |