Example sentences of "him his [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed .
2 He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust .
3 When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes .
4 During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre .
5 A right-wing corner by the left-footed Preece was met so powerfully by James that the young full-back could be proud of the header which brought him his first goal of the season …
6 Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business .
7 That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday .
8 Michael Caine 's cockney Alfie ( foreign to American ears ) won him his first nomination in 1966 , but he had to play an American to win at last , twenty years later , in Hannah and Her Sisters .
9 Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight .
10 The libraries that Hoggart remembers as giving him his first education in English literature acquired serious books of every kind .
11 His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation .
12 Gungawatti , when frightened by a swarm of jungle bees , gave him his first ride on the back of a bolting elephant .
13 His new wife Fatmawati gave him his first son , Guntur , whose name means ‘ thunder ’ .
14 He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition .
15 It also gave him his first taste of advertising as he worked as a junior on the flotation of Harrison Cowley , later to be taken over by Saatchi & Saatchi .
16 The trip was a great success , the subsequent Travels in the West exhibition proving very popular in Nanjing and giving him his first taste of newspaper and television attention .
17 I gave him his first bath .
18 He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship .
19 But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars .
20 While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just his paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 .
21 While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just the paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 .
22 BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break .
23 They gave him his first meal , of bread for the body and purifying salt for the immortal soul , and cheered as his tiny red face puckered at the taste and he yelled lustily .
24 The home team 's comeback was complete when Ford cross to the far post and Paul Read 's low header gave him his 17th goal of the season .
25 Our grief at his passing , just a few days before we could celebrate with him his eightieth birthday , is only diminished by the knowledge that he left us knowing that the fruits of his inspired leadership and labours are imperishable .
26 He reminded himself to ask one of the guards when they brought him his next meal
27 And his own man in Atlanta , where his straight talking and his independence had won him his next posting .
28 An ambulance gave him his last race to Paso Robles Hospital .
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