Example sentences of "could [verb] him a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 2 | It explained his interest in Heather 's disappearance as well as his offer of money to Harry if he could give him a story . |
| 3 | I could give him a message . |
| 4 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 5 | MACAULEY Culkin 's Kevin may be a dab hand with a booby trap but when it comes down to straightforward , grimy-faced scallywaggery , there are a couple of Irish lads in Into The West who could give him a run for his money . |
| 6 | Gabriel knocked at the door and asked if they could give him a bed for the night and a bite to eat . |
| 7 | What other books might there be that could give him a bit of elementary information ? |
| 8 | " We could give him a pair of spectacles , " Eddie suggested . |
| 9 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 10 | You could give him a book token let him do his own . |
| 11 | The same mixture of steel and sparkle could give him a hat-trick over Jansher . |
| 12 | I wish I could give him a post , but I could not pass Lord Bute 's son with decency ’ . |
| 13 | She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn . |
| 14 | It would be lovely he said if somebody could give him a ring . |
| 15 | Perhaps you could give him a round of applause . |
| 16 | No one could give him an age . |
| 17 | On Christmas morning , Murphy brought the carriage round to the front door long before Alexandra could send him a message to say she would drive herself to church . |
| 18 | She could send him a proof of the article on the Holocaust she had written for Fem Sap . |
| 19 | ‘ But I could do him a bit of harm . |
| 20 | We could do him a deal could n't we with all , all Toshiba I 'd say how much Toshibas . |
| 21 | BERNIE Slaven 's outburst at being left out in the cold could cost him a place in the starting line-up as Middlesbrough take on Tranmere tonight . |
| 22 | I guess we could call him a sound entrepreneur . ’ |
| 23 | The burgesses of the ‘ husband town ’ allocated such divisions on behalf of the Crown , the arable land being measured to assess its user 's liability for military service : a ‘ husbandland ’ was the area of ploughland sufficient to provide a man with a living that could afford him a horse and harness when called on in a Border emergency . |
| 24 | At eighteen he was tending bar in San Francisco when an actress , taken with his clean-cut good looks , said she thought she could get him a scene shifter 's job at the theatre . |
| 25 | I could get him a chain to go on his St Christopher . |
| 26 | And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’ |
| 27 | By God , she could teach him a thing or two yet ! |