Example sentences of "[vb past] him the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 2 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 3 | I told him the credit authority number . |
| 4 | He showed no surprise when Blanche told him the number plate of the car was false , and Nowak emphasised he did not want the police to press charges if the driver was found . |
| 5 | Schellenberg handed him the Führer Directive . |
| 6 | He gave him a document and showed him the photocopying room . |
| 7 | He showed him the mess library and the official telephone , then discreetly vanished . |
| 8 | and I showed him the escape hatch in the cockpit , " open this hatch and get out and get as far away from the aircraft as you can " . |
| 9 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 10 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 11 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 12 | They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it . |
| 13 | Martin Sharp 's ability as an illustrator and former Oz co-editor , made him the art director . |
| 14 | I have a hunch that Hilary read him the riot act . ’ |
| 15 | Blackwell had already been in touch with William Penn [ q.v. ] , when the Quaker proprietor offered him the deputy governorship of the infant colony of Pennsylvania , in a desperate attempt to reassert his authority over the resident Quaker oligarchy based in Philadelphia . |
| 16 | William Hill have already reacted by installing him as 5-2 favourite to win the world after his record fifth successive victory in the Masters , a performance which earned him the gold trophy for keeps . |
| 17 | William Rees-Davies : Jan 8 , aged 75 : An MP whose habit of sweeping through the Commons corridors in a black cloak earned him the nickname Dracula . |
| 18 | Northumberland senior boys 110 metres hurdler Kevin Lumsden knocked four barriers down but won in 14.9 secs , a three-second improvement on the run which earned him the county title seven days earlier . |
| 19 | And then when he 'd won he offered Heseltine the had of friendship and promptly he gave him the Poll Tax , which will finish him for ever . |
| 20 | So I took his egg and bacon , gave him the finney haddock and he never said a word . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you sure you gave him the message right ? |
| 22 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
| 23 | Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement . |
| 24 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 25 | FURIOUS Nigel Mansell ended his Formula One career yesterday with a blast at the team which gave him the World Drivers ' Championship . |
| 26 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 27 | Weston 's 1920 From Ritual to Romance gave him the tarot pack and backed up Frazer 's emphasis on links between sexuality and religion . |
| 28 | The 32-year-old Irishman said his struggle to return to the form which won him the world title and Tours of France and Italy in 1987 his 1987 level , when he won a world title and the Tours of France and Italy , had placed strains on his family . |