Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bred him and love the horse , and I 'm delighted to have sold him to an owner who will look after his interests . |
| 2 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 3 | She was damn lucky to have pulled him as a husband . |
| 4 | Of relics of ‘ Our Henry 's ’ birth , the chateau of Pau keeps a single , peculiar example : the large turtle-shell supposed to have served him for a cradle , once his grandfather had christened him by rubbing his lips with a clove of garlic and a dab of Jurançon wine . |
| 5 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |