Example sentences of "him the [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 2 | Kendall has dismissed him , but Everton might be better off re-educating the others to give him the service he thrives on . |
| 3 | Two days later the Marquis ' wife , a good woman , who has learned with horror something of what has happened , comes to Manette , hoping to be able to contact through him the sister she knows to survive from the murdered family , and to help her by way of making some atonement for her husband 's and her brother-in-law 's evil behaviour ; Manette can give her no information , however . |
| 4 | She had entered into the union for her own reasons and she had taken her marriage vows with no thoughts other than to be a dutiful wife to him and to give him the happiness he deserved . |
| 5 | However , events take a path of their own and the picture finally brings him the happiness it seemed to promise all along . |
| 6 | Sugar have provided the right vehicle for Mould to tether his current world-view to , providing ( with Mould 's guitar and the tightness of the rhythm section ) a set of beautifully hard-knuckled rock arrangements that give him the clout he needs to reinforce the feeling inherent in his vocals . |
| 7 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 8 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 9 | If Pooh 's belief is true , his action ( going to the cupboard ) will succeed : it will get him the honey he wants . |
| 10 | Too short to give him the help he needed . |
| 11 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
| 12 | When my father is drunk and beats me , he does it because I wo n't go out and beg in the streets and bring him the money I get . |
| 13 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |
| 14 | ‘ You were with him the night he died ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … . |
| 16 | She had fallen in love with him the minute she saw him , and she had known it , shied away from it , fought it , resisted , resisted , resisted … but love could n't be resisted forever . |
| 17 | Was sleeping with him the price you had to pay for having him throw a little business your way ? ’ |
| 18 | I 've brought him the programs he asked for . ’ |
| 19 | If I give him money he goes and spends it If I lend him the bike he loses it He 's completely unreliable |
| 20 | Sara silently handed him the ingredients he wanted and found the mustard pot . |
| 21 | There were few pedestrians about and the dimly lit pavement afforded him the cover he needed . |
| 22 | It cost him the land he had so longed to enter . |
| 23 | But they went from him the way they did in dreams . |
| 24 | We finally beat him , we did n't beat him the way we wanted , but we won . |
| 25 | She 'd have done better to snap back at him the way he 'd snapped at her ! |
| 26 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 27 | I show him , I show him the way I do it , and go through it with him . |
| 28 | ‘ My master will take it as a sign , a beacon to lead him the way you wish . ’ |
| 29 | But I do remember that when we were growing up , Mother never talked about him the way she does now . ’ |
| 30 | And André was in his element , enjoying the buzzing atmosphere around him the way she had used to at one point in time . |