Example sentences of "him a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a second election took place in September of that year , which gave him a pathetic working majority of four . |
| 2 | Mr Bill Pilkington gets to work on the D&S crossword , which took him a mere six-and-a-half minutes . |
| 3 | That 's what made him a successful foreign correspondent . ’ |
| 4 | Burden thought him a weak womanish fool , despising his red eyes and the muscle that twitched in his cheek . |
| 5 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 6 | For this , Italian fanzines make him a perfect Italian boy ( ‘ Mamma is my true sweetheart ’ — Max Magazine ) . |
| 7 | She gave him a melancholy little smile . |
| 8 | The field officer 's sense of autonomy derives from the fact that being allocated to districts on a geographical basis designed around river catchments gives him a personal territorial jurisdiction over which he presides . |
| 9 | She shot him a sharp little gaze — as if unsure as yet whether he was friend or foe . |
| 10 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 11 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 12 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 13 | In her mind she talked to him , telling him about her life , day-to-day things , carrying on with him a long intimate dialogue . |
| 14 | The Major gave him a long hard look , but said nothing . |
| 15 | His wife gave him a long level look with no liking in it at all , and Penelope Huntley watched , fascinated . |
| 16 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 17 | Yes , or did once when it was important to him professionally , when there was still the lurking doubt that no one would call any more to offer him a great new role , an insecurity built on the fact they no one did call in the first fourteen years of his professional life . |
| 18 | Isobel and Dorothy were battling their way against the wind down to the bus stop , the following morning , when they met Hank hunched up in his old black zipper jacket and a pair of earmuffs , which gave him a quaintly catlike appearance . |
| 19 | His girlfriend , a dealer too , would give him a bored hard look , if she happened to be around . |
| 20 | She flung him a savage little smile . |
| 21 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 22 | Give him a nice straightforward GBH case in the back streets of the Cumbermound development any day rather than these smartarse church intellectuals with their fancy words and their finicky manners and their too high opinions of themselves . |
| 23 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 24 | Van was the man to cultivate , said Morton — he had a finger in every secret service pie — and Van indeed had offered him a certain irascible encouragement . |
| 25 | You do n't really want Fabbiano to find out that one of his little girls cost him a whoppin' big order . ’ |
| 26 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 27 | She gave him a pleased earnest nod . |
| 28 | They 've been back on the phone again despite Portsmouth awarding him a new two-year contract ! |
| 29 | Now instead they 've offered him a new one year contract . |
| 30 | Here we show how TODAY produced a slimline Santa and gave him a new modern look . |