Example sentences of "i [vb past] him a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 2 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 3 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Actually , I found him a pleasant companion . |
| 5 | I found him a fascinating , knowledgeable and eclectic artist , someone who thinks deeply about his work and is not content simply to record the bare facts of the world in front of him . |
| 6 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |
| 7 | I found him a clean scarf to hold over his face . |
| 8 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 9 | I admired him a great deal … ’ |
| 10 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 11 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 12 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 13 | But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . ) |
| 14 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 15 | The ambassador and his wife were very pleasant , and as the Ambassador stood up and made a very impressive speech in Chinese , I thought him a distinct improvement on his confrère in the Hague ! |
| 16 | On the two occasions he came here , I thought him a charming youth . |
| 17 | ‘ I advanced him a goodly sum , yes . |
| 18 | Each time I sent him a rewritten chapter , he sent back a long list of objections and questions he wanted me to clarify . |
| 19 | I gave him a real dressing-down . ’ |
| 20 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 21 | I gave him a ridiculous list of things ( most of them I do n't want , but it 'll keep him busy ) to buy . |
| 22 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 23 | I gave him a fist-full . |
| 24 | I gave him a good going-over , I can tell you . |
| 25 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 26 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 27 | I gave him a final wave just before we turned into the approach road leading to the village . |
| 28 | I gave him a simple answer , the one that eventually became officially accepted . |
| 29 | I gave him a full deflection burst for good measure and then my ammunition ran out . |
| 30 | Yeah and it was really nice to see him , I gave him a massive hug . |