Example sentences of "who [verb] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 2 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 3 | However , it is always possible that the person who sold him the goods , later acquires the title to them . |
| 4 | The employer will have a contract with the person who sold him the equipment and will probably be able to recoup his losses through a contract action . |
| 5 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 6 | Eight years later , Paul was sitting in a bloke 's house in Wrexham who told him the very same joke ! |
| 7 | ‘ Tante grazie , Benito , ’ Lucenzo muttered to the boatman , who handed him the keys to the ignition . |
| 8 | who showed him the true path : |
| 9 | Quinn , meanwhile , joined Coventry with a good luck message from the boss who showed him the door at St James ' Park . |
| 10 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 11 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 12 | It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths . |
| 13 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 14 | Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most . |
| 15 | According to another version of events , Mozart was visited by a ‘ mysterious stranger ’ who offered him the commission on behalf of an anonymous patron , producing the initial fee immediately . |
| 16 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 17 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 18 | But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message . |
| 19 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 20 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 21 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 22 | It was James I who gave him the epithet ‘ judicious ’ and enjoined his son , the future King Charles 1 , to study his works . |
| 23 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 24 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 25 | The pope sent cardinals , the senator of Rome and other nobles to escort him to St Peter 's and at the monastery of St Pancras the king was anointed by the cardinal bishop of Porto and crowned by the pope , who gave him the royal insignia . |
| 26 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 27 | On its release in Britain , the Daily Worker described it as ‘ the first genuine ‘ mod ’ film of the British cinema' and the Sunday Express declared that ‘ its real jewels are the shining performances of Michael Crawford , as the gauche youth , and Miss Tushingham , as the girl who gives him the knowledge . |
| 28 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |