Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 2 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 3 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 4 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 5 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 6 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 7 | I forgot to get him a card to go out again for a card . |
| 8 | I began to understand him a little The rubber clothing , for example , I never saw as part of his own sexual fantasy world , but as part of the fascination he had with all secret worlds . |
| 9 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 10 | It happened during the final couple of years of my marriage when , tired of the humiliation my husband 's affairs imposed on me , I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine . |
| 11 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 12 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 13 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 14 | So when Lewis turned up I decided to show him the money straight away . |
| 15 | I decided to hand him a quarter |
| 16 | I offered to give him a game or two if he needed the practice but , as he soon told me , snooker training is a lot more complicated than that nowadays . |
| 17 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 18 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 19 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 20 | I had to explain him a bit first , because from meeting me you would n't necessarily be able to tell what my best friend was like , and Oliver can get up people 's nostrils . |
| 21 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 22 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 23 | I wish I had landed him a facer ! ’ |
| 24 | There was a silence , as if I had asked him a very profound question . |
| 25 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 26 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 27 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 28 | I had met him every day of my life in England : punching my ticket on a ‘ bus , cutting my hair , selling me an evening newspaper or looking after the engine of my aeroplane . |
| 29 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 30 | I had to ask him the way to the police station . |