Example sentences of "and [verb] him the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 32 | An advocate of home rule and agrarian reform , Walsh 's support for the controversial ‘ plan of campaign ’ earned him the displeasure of Rome and cost him the cardinal 's hat . |
| 33 | But I had no idea how to make them so I had to ask my tutor and show him the work . |
| 34 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 35 | ‘ Now then , our Emily , get your skates on and show him the lie of the land . |
| 36 | Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Such suspicions were reinforced when he made this pampered favourite Duke of Lennox and granted him the revenues of Arbroath abbey . |
| 39 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 42 | It would have been better , would it not , if you had spoken earlier , and spared him the journey that was his death ? ’ |
| 43 | At this rate she might as well give him a blow-by-blow description of the last time they had shared the bench , and save him the trouble of remembering . |
| 44 | As he fished , twisting his wrist back and forth , trying to get hold of more , a policeman came up and handed him the pile off the pavement . |
| 45 | ‘ Be my guest , ’ Trent said and handed him the eight thousand dollars from his back pocket . |
| 46 | He looked at the Substitute who stuck the cigar between his teeth and handed him the sheet of paper saying : |
| 47 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 48 | She blew smoke out , coughed , and handed him the cigarette and he took it without a word . |
| 49 | Marginally more in control , she sauntered back through to the kitchen and handed him the brush , carefully keeping her own fingers clear of his . |
| 50 | ‘ 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 . |
| 51 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 52 | ‘ You can come twice for that , ’ she promised , and showed him the tip of her tongue . |
| 53 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |
| 54 | He gave him a document and showed him the photocopying room . |
| 55 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 56 | The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury . |
| 57 | The captain followed the direction of the American boy 's pointing finger for a moment , then lifted his left wrist and showed him the dial of his watch . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | When you call him out , describe what you think the fault is , and give him the make and model number of your boiler if possible . |
| 60 | After a large crusade the Jeffreys would appoint a leader and give him the task of planting a new church with the fruits of the crusade . |