Example sentences of "[vb past] him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 2 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 3 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 4 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 5 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 6 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 7 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 8 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 9 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 10 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 11 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 12 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 13 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 14 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 15 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 16 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 17 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 18 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 19 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 20 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 21 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 22 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 23 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 24 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 25 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 26 | Jessamyn handed him the still-smoking gun . |
| 27 | She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah ! |
| 28 | Judi , her face white with Gothic make-up , handed him the glowing syringe . |
| 29 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |
| 30 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |