Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 2 | The chief priests promised to give him thirty pieces of silver which , according to the Old Testament , was the price of a slave . |
| 3 | He commiserated with Blair over his failure with certain seeds and promised to send him rare plants . |
| 4 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 5 | Charlton boss Lennie Lawrence made a mental note of the raw youngster and tried to sign him two seasons later . |
| 6 | The weight of Garvey on his narrow , bony shoulders , combined with the close fit of the donkey-head , seemed to cause him some distress , because he suddenly reeled up against a wall and snatched off the head . |
| 7 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 8 | Kenneth rotated his shoulders as he drove , trying to ease the nagging pain in them that too much drink the night before always seemed to give him these days . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone forgot to release him last night , ’ one of them shouted . |
| 10 | Edward retreated to Brussels , but in the winter of 1339–40 he achieved an important diplomatic success in Flanders when he persuaded James van Artevelde to enter into an alliance with him under which Artevelde recognized his title to the French throne and agreed to give him military aid . |
| 11 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 12 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 13 | He was older , seventy , and his legs began to give him such pain . |
| 14 | ‘ Yesterday probably because the photos were n't in the house when I called to see him last night . |
| 15 | Mr Smith started to give him new clothes but soon realized that William had no wish to be clean , as on the next visit the new suit would be filthy . |
| 16 | They started to give him more advice . |
| 17 | She flew to give him last words of advice , all of them unnecessary . |
| 18 | She decided to give him another chance , this time on her own terms . |
| 19 | I decided to offer him some food . |
| 20 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 21 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You went to see him this morning … ? ’ |
| 23 | I went to see him several times before I went home ’ . |
| 24 | I think the family managed to find him some kind of posting in a province in the north-west , towards the Land of the Twin Rivers . |
| 25 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |
| 26 | ‘ Sarah did n't know he was n't home until she went to call him next morning and found he had n't slept in his bed . |
| 27 | In March , however , they relented and — perhaps persuaded by the convalescent Hamilton — agreed to pay him eight guineas . |
| 28 | The recollection appeared to cause him further amusement . |
| 29 | When Sophie praised a necklet of rubies that she was wearing , it appeared to give him great pleasure . |
| 30 | Azhag possessed a strange iron crown which appeared to give him sorcerous powers . |