Example sentences of "him the [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of the party 's rural Deputies put it : ‘ If Ray proves he can do the toughest job in the EC , and he has , would n't it be foolish not to give him the opportunity to run this little country of ours ? ’ |
| 2 | Joining the army gave him the opportunity to play full time : ‘ I practised mostly all day , and in the evenings . |
| 3 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |
| 4 | So we all shouted : ‘ Give him the gold watch any road ! ’ |
| 5 | Lothlórien has won many hearts , and even the most censorious of Tolkien 's critics have accordingly been ready to grant him the ability to create nice settings . |
| 6 | Andy Cole 's U-turn gave him the space to shoot high into the net . |
| 7 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 8 | He chose for his format the imperial folio size ( 22 x 16½in/59 x 42cm ) considerably smaller than Audubon 's double elephant , but still affording him the chance to draw most of his subjects life-size . |
| 9 | That gave him the chance to exercise one of his talents , as a teacher , but he was also a bit of a musician , and soon established himself as the organist at the parish church in Holloway . |
| 10 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 11 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 12 | Foreman agreed to link up with Stafford to give him the chance to attract another League club . |
| 13 | ‘ Victor does a marvellous job in the loose for Bath because they are the strongest club side in England and therefore their pack give him the chance to run free . |
| 14 | He was fading away ‘ like the old soldier in the ballad , an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty . ’ |
| 15 | Berenson 's wife Mary , who had fallen in love with Scott , obtained from him the commission to remodel I Tatti . |
| 16 | So as naturally as anything , Judith switched to Spanish and greatly impressed the customer as well as pressing upon him the need to provide proper facilities for his ladies . |
| 17 | But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ? |