Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 32 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 33 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 34 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 35 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 36 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 37 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 38 | His family have bought him a new hi-fi for Christmas . |
| 39 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 40 | She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown . |
| 41 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 42 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 43 | Cummins has offered him a senior position with the company and the chance to spearhead its attempts to break into the East European engine market . |
| 44 | We 've offered him the best contract we could give him |
| 45 | But we 've had a very very well we 've still got him a good treasurer . |
| 46 | Yesterday Mr Hall said he was dissatisfied with the service he had received from Reg Vardy 's at Houghton-Le-Spring who had sold him the luxury car . |
| 47 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 48 | If someone had told him a nuclear bomb was targeted on County Limerick , he 'd he delighted that his heating bills would be reduced . |
| 49 | I 've told him no more sex till he gets back into shape . ’ |
| 50 | But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell . |
| 51 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 52 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |
| 53 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 54 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 55 | He also agreed to talk to his father , who had helped him a good deal in the past . |
| 56 | The larger-than-life character is becoming well-known on the streets of Iasi youngsters in the town have dubbed him The Black Horse and even taken to copying his distinctive hairstyle : slicked back with a pony-tail . |
| 57 | On the other hand , he was n't all that heavily built and a strong man — or woman , come to that — could have dragged him a short distance . ’ |
| 58 | He inspired spite : critics called him a male Farah Fawcett , said he was pretty enough to make a convincing transvestite . |
| 59 | Yet this season , he 's played all but two matches , and since the ‘ 5 man defence ’ appeared when Batty got injured , the reviews I 've read have even called him a Batty replacement , and given him a good write-up . |
| 60 | ‘ Called him a proper bastard in Paradise Street . ’ |