Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did indeed occur , for when she went to embrace him the bodies of the lover and the beloved merged forever , becoming a double-sexed being — a youth with the breasts of a woman . |
| 2 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a message from Bill , ’ she said , then proceeded to give him the details . |
| 4 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 5 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 6 | They had told him the chaprassi would want a bribe , but instructed him not to pay it . |
| 7 | He said his experience as president of Youth Clubs UK which looks after around one million youngsters in Britain , had shown him the pressures faced by young people today . |
| 8 | Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold . |
| 9 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |