Example sentences of "him a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 2 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 3 | He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’ |
| 4 | When one of the men he had employed as a ploughman in the autumn came to the farm , more in hope than the expectation of finding any work , Seb was able to offer him a day 's pay . |
| 5 | When the defence requested more time to prepare their case , Jeffries raged , ‘ I will not give him a minute 's time more to save his life ’ . |
| 6 | Monboddo led them in , saying that since he was dressed like a farmer , they should have with him a farmer 's family dinner . |
| 7 | I said if he beat Bruno , I would pay him a king 's ransom to come back and fight Mike Tyson in London . |
| 8 | If he does not collect it , the sheriff 's men who pocketed poor Vechey 's valuables , will find him a pauper 's grave ! ’ |
| 9 | Flautist Tim Wheater , well known for playing with the group The Eurythmics , suffered an outbreak of lip blisters and ulcers which destroyed his ability to control the flute , and lost him a year 's income . |
| 10 | Adrian , who professes to prefer football to cricket , will certainly be paying more attention to the game from now on , particularly as we are giving him a year 's membership to the Young Cricketer Bunbury as our Young Cricketer of the Month . |
| 11 | The applicant was refused entry as a student although he had written evidence that the course fees had been paid , that his brother ( resident in the UK ) would maintain him , and that his employers in Mauritius had given him a year 's leave for study . |
| 12 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
| 13 | Indeed , we have tried to offer him accommodation erm to help him , to offer him a deposit erm for a room . |
| 14 | I have the luxury as a recruiter on this occasion to say when when Trevor walks through the door I can offer him a position er if all things being equal erm in any of those companies . |
| 15 | Carla sent him a lawyer 's letter , demanded that he pay her £500 and write a grovelling letter , which she now has framed . |
| 16 | A month ago I did n't give him a dog 's chance , but a funny thing seems to have happened on the way to X-ray . ’ |
| 17 | Horatia leads him a dog 's life . |
| 18 | I 'd have called him a mother 's boy . |
| 19 | She gave him a mother 's kiss and ate her son . |
| 20 | He claimed she retaliated by turning the children against him and threatening to kill him , at one point sending him a Valentine 's Day card with skewers and a knife stuck in it . |
| 21 | Aye , I 'll send him a solicitor 's letter that bloody |
| 22 | Er I 'm not too sure where he lives cos he just , I think he 's just new to the town but if you give him a ring erm on the 's phone number and use the |
| 23 | The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that the Army had finally lost patience and given him a month 's notice to quit . |
| 24 | COPING AWARD : A local supermarket will give him a month 's trial as a shelf-filler . |
| 25 | Mary of Guise had the sense not to make him a cause célèbre . |
| 26 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 27 | She handed him a Lyle 's Price Guide , open at the right page : ‘ It 's three years out of date but look at the prices . ’ |
| 28 | That would give him a week 's grace at least , and then he 'd do the same thing again in some other place to stay untraceable . |
| 29 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 30 | In his words , he ‘ sold ’ himself to the Norwich City Football Club , persistently going to the training ground when aged 14 and 15 , until the club offered him an apprentice 's contract . |