Example sentences of "who [vb past] him his [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The only witnesses had been Sarah 's stepmother , and an ecclesiastic colleague who envied him his good fortune .
2 It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday .
3 He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship .
4 Curiously , Abbado is succeeding the man who gave him his first big break .
5 His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation .
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