Example sentences of "him the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |
| 2 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 3 | She gave him the bundle and he opened it to examine the contents . |
| 4 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 5 | When , at the end of two hours , they finally showed him the document and he acknowledged what had happened , ‘ there was a sigh from the assembled people . ’ |
| 6 | Then I gave him the slip and came to London . ’ |
| 7 | Sir William Anstruther-Gray formally declared him the victor and his election was duly rubber-stamped at the ceremonial party meeting six days later . |
| 8 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
| 9 | This was a feeling he sometimes had , when he pictured his friends as ‘ stationed ’ , like auspicious stars , close to him , protecting him , and offering him the privilege and pleasure of performing , in their respect , good deeds . |
| 10 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 11 | Davies says Saxton , who suffers from asthma , gave him the drug when he complained of having a tight chest . |
| 12 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd willingly give him the belt but he would n't take it . |
| 14 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 15 | ‘ No bank would lend him the money but Harry made it work . ’ |
| 16 | We gave him the money and he handed it immediately to Romany , the administrator of bribes . |
| 17 | The court held that the accused represented that the bank owed him the money and that he was entitled to withdraw it . |
| 18 | I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me . |
| 19 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |
| 20 | Erm I think it was an inter-club actually , oh the inter-club table show was the only night he could manage and that was no good to us so erm we , we the only way we could do it was to t bring him the night that there was a full table show transfer the full table show to the champion of champions judge that first and put the winning fish into the champion of champions and I know , well it 's gon na be woof you know a rush and that will , oh well , never mind . |
| 21 | Well what I do with Matthew is , I put him the lettuce and tomato and celery in one portion he has er , cottage cheese and coleslaw in the other and |
| 22 | I told him the price when he ordered them |
| 23 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 24 | Alexander 's method was brought about by his unique way of thinking which made him the genius that he was . |
| 25 | When the coughing stopped again , he signalled Myeloski to give him the pad and pencil . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you , that was very good of you , ’ she murmured politely , but , feeling intimidated suddenly — or was that her guilty conscience again at work , she got to her feet and handed him the proof that she was who she said she was . |
| 27 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ There , Mr Cottle , ’ Mary Ann was saying to the traveller in jelly , as she passed him the bread and butter , ‘ this 'll put roses in your cheeks . ’ |
| 29 | we gave him the bread and we did it |
| 30 | It would have been better , would it not , if you had spoken earlier , and spared him the journey that was his death ? ’ |