Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his mum Sherie has promised him the best one ever . |
| 2 | Asked what has caused him the greatest difficulties as Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan is said to have replied : ‘ Events , my dear , events . ’ |
| 3 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 4 | She was less close to Gildas , whom she regarded with some slight awe , for she feared his irony and his sharp tongue , and would not have allowed him the slightest ‘ liberty ’ had he not cleverly , for he was very clever , ‘ set up , a conversation which led her , through a series of exchanges , into the danger area . |
| 5 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 6 | We 've offered him the best contract we could give him |
| 7 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 8 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 9 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |