Example sentences of "have [verb] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it was one of Adams 's less-explosive innings which has given him the most pleasure this summer . |
| 2 | A lifetime 's devotion to ants has made him the principal authority on the subject . |
| 3 | And his mum Sherie has promised him the best one ever . |
| 4 | ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg . |
| 5 | Asked what has caused him the greatest difficulties as Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan is said to have replied : ‘ Events , my dear , events . ’ |
| 6 | David Lloyd clubs , all 7 of them — and more to come — are building their reputation on quality of service , something which has allowed him the entrepreneurial satisfaction of seeing his company expand , when others around him are failing , victims of all the British recession . |
| 7 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 8 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
| 9 | … commanded his armie to halt , and himselfe went alone to the toppe where , having sighted the Mar del Sur , he knelt down and raising his hands to Heaven , pouring forth mighty praises to God for His great grace in having made him the first man to discover and sight it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 12 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 15 | But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room . |
| 16 | He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment . |
| 17 | She sometimes had given him the spare front door key but he denied having had the key on the day of her death . |
| 18 | Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this . |
| 19 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 20 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 21 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 22 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 23 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 24 | We 've offered him the best contract we could give him |
| 25 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 28 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 29 | Yesterday Mr Hall said he was dissatisfied with the service he had received from Reg Vardy 's at Houghton-Le-Spring who had sold him the luxury car . |
| 30 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |