Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 2 | And wh what they did , they carried out this test and they er in American and they erm were giving him the pills . |
| 3 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 4 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |
| 5 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 6 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 7 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 8 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 9 | I told him I knew Marc was going to listen to him , would help him , that all he had to do was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ All I did was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 11 | And all the while , while he was handing him the plate of meat and bread , and while he was holding the cup to the trembling lips , a little silvery voice was beating inside Fergus 's head : this is all wrong . |
| 12 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 13 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 14 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 15 | Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth . |
| 16 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 17 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |
| 18 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 19 | Byers was offering him the bottle . |