Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan turned to the porter and tossed him a silver coin . |
| 2 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 3 | She came back through the kitchen and gave him the torch . |
| 4 | Marginally more in control , she sauntered back through to the kitchen and handed him the brush , carefully keeping her own fingers clear of his . |
| 5 | Every time he lifted the cap of his luminous watch the hands seemed to have barely moved , but now he hauled Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott into the canoe and passed him the flask of coffee . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought he was perfect for the story and sent him a script with about as much hope as those who put messages in bottles and toss them in the ocean . ’ |
| 7 | No wonder his chairman , Sam Hammam , has hit the roof and called him a mosquito brain . |
| 8 | Apart from indicating the couch and offering him the wine she had done no more than sit watching him , occasionally rubbing a deep scratch on her arm . |
| 9 | She pressed her nose to the window and gave him a wave . |
| 10 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 11 | Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go . |
| 12 | I called on the editor and sold him the idea that I should write the feature on my province ‘ Saskatchewan ’ , which I did , thus earning $30. towards the expenses of my Vancouver holiday . |
| 13 | Schellenberg leaned across the desk and offered him a cigarette . |
| 14 | It was a 3-iron approach from 214 yards which hit the flag and left him a putt of only two feet . |
| 15 | My father did n't think of it again till this German visited the shop and showed him an illustration . |
| 16 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 17 | If an adviser proposes to comment adversely upon the work of an individual teacher at a meeting he should inform the teacher and give him an opportunity to reply . |
| 18 | Throughout their married life she was a tremendous support , managing their everyday affairs , helping to organise his exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic and allowing him the freedom — one might say the luxury — to paint without interruption . |
| 19 | " Not yet ; let's get a sup of tea into the lad and ask him a few questions . |
| 20 | Denis Smith says hopefully to get three points and play good football … there 's not much they can do in two days but his team talk will be tell the players to go out enjoy it and pass the ball … by a strange twist of fate Smith 's first match at the Manor is against the team that gave him the sack last season Bristol City |
| 21 | By itself it does n't prove a thing , but it 's my way of getting them to take me to Strathspeld for the funeral ; I can look McDunn in the eye and tell him the truth and he knows it 's the truth and he 'll take me . |
| 22 | He said goodbye to the tourist and wished him a pleasant stay . |
| 23 | I picked up the phone and gave him an ear-bashing . ’ |
| 24 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 25 | He helped Willie into the back and threw him an old rug to cover himself with for he still looked terribly pale . |
| 26 | I handed back the magazine and gave him a bundle of mail . |
| 27 | Isambard , putting the door to very softly behind him , was stabbed by yet another of the recollections that fronted him every way where Harry was . |
| 28 | We got the dog and give him a couple of rope ends in his mouth and he take them across the ice . |
| 29 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 30 | I sat on the edge of the bed and wrote him a letter in my mind : |