Example sentences of "they [vb past] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared . |
| 2 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 3 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 4 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 5 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
| 6 | They tagged him the Nabob Of Sob , the Prince Of Wails and the Cry Guy . |
| 7 | They showed him the boat . |
| 8 | They called him The King of Hell . ’ |
| 9 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 10 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 11 | DAVID : THEY called him the Diamond Dog |
| 12 | They called him the bamboo man when they finally dared to discuss it . |
| 13 | The bank ca n't have believed him ; they gave him the sack . ’ |
| 14 | They gave him the leave which he sought . |
| 15 | ‘ They gave him the oxygen , to help him breathe . |
| 16 | And the idea they gave him the Sammy Davis Jr Award just infuriates me . |
| 17 | Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement . |
| 18 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 19 | When they gave him the MBE ( some said it should have been the Croix de Guerre ) for services to the Party , the club committee charged 10p a pint all day . |
| 20 | They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract . |
| 21 | They demanded an even more radical approach to delinquency that would tackle not the individual offender but the wider deprivation and social injustice of which they considered him the product . |