Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sisters did n't tell him about their books , or show him the new ones that they were writing . |
| 2 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 3 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 4 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |
| 5 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 6 | A great looker , and he may have shown his admiration because she had ducked her dark head in mock embarrassment and given him the slowest smile as she had moved away . |
| 7 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 8 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 9 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 10 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 11 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 12 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 13 | Erm Simon had a list Well we 'd come and see him the thirty first of January , Tony came to me to work on it today , and that 's not . |
| 14 | ‘ Be my guest , ’ Trent said and handed him the eight thousand dollars from his back pocket . |
| 15 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 16 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 17 | And give him the good news . |
| 18 | Corsie , however , produced a perfect running bowl to take out Gourlay 's two nearest and give him the three shots he needed to take the set . |
| 19 | So you will walk into that store and give him the haughtiest stare you are capable of — and you can do it , ’ he promised . |
| 20 | ‘ Then go to Rebecque and tell him the bad news . ’ |
| 21 | I ’ m going to write to James , and tell him the true story . |
| 22 | By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them . |
| 23 | She stopped in front of him , leaning forward confidentially and giving him the full benefit of the satin décolletage . |
| 24 | She put her lips together and blew him the tiniest of kisses . |
| 25 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 26 | Election and investiture had been accomplished in a confused way when the king nominated him and offered him the pastoral staff , round which the bishops pressed Anselm 's resisting fingers . |
| 27 | Reaching the end of the line , he danced over to where Mait sat in the sedan chair , and offered him the strange object . |
| 28 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 29 | As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Oui , ’ she said , and gave him the folded note . |