Example sentences of "and [vb base] him the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Should she do a U-turn and sell him the house ? she wondered .
2 He thought he 'd find a rich one and sell him the cross for a good price .
3 So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record .
4 When my father is drunk and beats me , he does it because I wo n't go out and beg in the streets and bring him the money I get .
5 If you remember , yesterday afternoon , after the funeral , Francis asked me to lock the studio and bring him the key .
6 An advocate of home rule and agrarian reform , Walsh 's support for the controversial ‘ plan of campaign ’ earned him the displeasure of Rome and cost him the cardinal 's hat .
7 But I had no idea how to make them so I had to ask my tutor and show him the work .
8 Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest .
9 ‘ Now then , our Emily , get your skates on and show him the lie of the land .
10 Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle .
11 At this rate she might as well give him a blow-by-blow description of the last time they had shared the bench , and save him the trouble of remembering .
12 You come and give him the present .
13 I think erm what , what we , what I 'd really like to do is if I could get in touch with him and give him the chance to make up his own mind er then he could decide whether or not he would like to have a chat with me and I 'd just run a few ideas by him , just as you 've done , without any pressure er and he can make his own decisions .
14 Try and give him the benefit of the doubt .
15 When they had gone , Cramer used the phone in the garage to put through a call to Sir Harry Marriott at his home and give him the news — the phone was more secure than a police radio band .
16 If this is not practicable , phone the Area Manager or a senior member of his team , and give him the details of your complaint .
17 But Chelsea boss Ian Porterfield defended Fleck , saying : ‘ We 've got to stick by him and give him the confidence to bring a change of luck . ’
18 After a large crusade the Jeffreys would appoint a leader and give him the task of planting a new church with the fruits of the crusade .
19 Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm .
20 When you call him out , describe what you think the fault is , and give him the make and model number of your boiler if possible .
21 He never mentioned Nordhausen or the involvement of the Russians , but knew that if he could commit the British Secret Service , it would keep the CIA off his back and give him the time he needed .
22 ( and pass him the salt )
23 Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds .
24 Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ .
25 Then she spotted a public telephone and decided she could not wait another minute to call Nick and tell him the job was completed .
26 Take him away , Sergeant , and tell him the facts of life !
27 Will the Chancellor have a word with his Chief Secretary and tell him the facts of life , which are that the burden of taxation is much higher than it was in 1970 when the Labour party was in office ?
28 By itself it does n't prove a thing , but it 's my way of getting them to take me to Strathspeld for the funeral ; I can look McDunn in the eye and tell him the truth and he knows it 's the truth and he 'll take me .
29 I 'll have to wait until Bluebeard 's in a mellow mood and tell him the truth .
30 I dressed and rushed through the streets to Dana 's place , and after prolonged hammering on his door managed to wake him and tell him the news .
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