Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] him a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hayling is a man of considerable and obvious intelligence , with dishy looks and great charm which made him a favourite with some of the women comrades . |
| 2 | He was a tyrant , a bully , and he 'd stolen her things — which made him a thief into the bargain ! |
| 3 | The distinctive thing about him which made him a legend in his lifetime and made his biography one of the Methodist best sellers of the century , was an immediate apprehension of the divine glory which issued naturally in leaping , dancing , and cheerful controversy with the world . |
| 4 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 5 | A mistake at the eighth , which cost him a shot , was only a momentary falter in his stately progress to a seven-under-par round at 65 . |
| 6 | Leigh , with the backing of his newspaper and the NUJ , brought an action against the justices in the High Court , which granted him a declaration that the policy of anonymity was " inimical to the proper administration of justice and an unwarranted and unlawful obstruction to the right to know who sits in judgment " . |
| 7 | Dulles on 12 December 1957 went as far as to describe France as " a very weak partner indeed " and one which caused him a lot of anxiety . |
| 8 | Served up as B fodder , at least it provided him with a salary , albeit on rock-bottom union rates of around $300 for a full working week , which assured him a place barely above the poverty line . |
| 9 | ‘ For Mr Hubbard its a hobby which costs him a lot of money . |
| 10 | CHRIS PICKERING , of Aintree who is now nearly 80 recalls a dockside incident which taught him a lesson in diplomacy ! |
| 11 | But he inspired awe not only because of his military resources , but also because of his lavishly spent wealth , his splendid building projects , the perception of his learning , the magnetism of his personality which brought him a following of other ecclesiastics . |
| 12 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his background was in the building trades — in 1724 he was described as a bricklayer , and later as a carpenter — but by the mid-1720s he had established two connections which brought him a place amongst the innermost circles of English Palladianism . |
| 13 | It was a win which brought him a prize of £79,000 and a place in the lucrative Johnnie Walker World Championship in Jamaica in December . |
| 14 | He went to the top eight accountancy firms in London , all of which offered him a job . |
| 15 | Rod boasts one of the most impressive CVs in showbusiness — the highlight being the Prince of Wales 's Symphony for the Spire at Salisbury Cathedral , an achievement which earned him a BAFTA award . |
| 16 | He also headed a number of Courtaulds ' textile businesses at different times but it was mainly his knowledge of viscose which earned him a reputation as a leading world authority on the fibre . |
| 17 | Sir Arthur Fairbairn was born deaf to Sir Thomas Fairbairn , and was the grandson of Sir William Fairbairn who was a great inventor and builder of bridges and dockyards which earned him a fortune . |
| 18 | This provoked Rangers into vicious retaliation and in quick succession Dave McPherson , John Morrow — back in the form which earned him a Northern Ireland call-up two years ago — and Ferguson all came within a whisker of the equaliser . |
| 19 | ‘ There go the 1970s , ’ commented Hargreaves , ‘ there go the drinking seventies , ’ a comment which earned him a slap in the eye from Giles 's girlfriend Venetia : ‘ Drunkard yourself ! ’ she shouted , ‘ drunkard yourself ! ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , as we shall see , Gregory VII rebuked his too active agent Hugh , now archbishop of Lyons , for his officious energy in harrying the king of England to carry out papal decrees , without regard to the king 's virtues which earned him a claim to forbearance . |
| 21 | It is not open to Mr Tillson subsequently to say that he had no need of a tenancy of the occupied land because he already had a possessory title which gave him a freehold interest in that land … |
| 22 | He persuaded Indian princes to fund the East India Association ( 1866 ) which gave him a platform for his campaign to open the Indian Civil Service to Indians and for publicizing his ‘ drain theory ’ , which presented British rule as a drain on the financial resources of India . |
| 23 | We bought him and his friends a drink which gave him a chance to quiz us on our movements for the next day . |
| 24 | Since his win in 1987 , Swindon has grown , changing the complexion of a town which gave him a majority ofjust 5,000 . |
| 25 | It was simply their headquarters where they came to trade , where they came to er perhaps attend law courts but particularly where the prior of came when he came to do services at the Minster because he was a canon of York as well as being canon or the parish of Bramham which gave him a seat in the Cathedral . |
| 26 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 27 | Moreover , he was recently married to Earl William 's sister , which gave him a family claim to an interest in the children and their estates . |
| 28 | In a robust speech , which won him a standing ovation , Mr Clarke denied suggestions that Government 's plans to overhaul the NHS were a substitute for extra money for the service . |
| 29 | His best work was his edition of the Oedipus Tyrannus ( 1920 ) which won him a Manchester honorary Litt.D. at the age of forty ; and The Pattern of the Iliad ( 1922 ) was based on his Manchester lectures on Homer . |
| 30 | John from Burton on Trent takes a size 21 , which won him a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of Britain 's biggest feet . |