Example sentences of "[verb] him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack 's magnificent start with the Eagles could win him a dramatic recall for Australia in next month 's World Cup final against Great Britain . |
| 2 | Rather than treating the foreign investor as a rival , we should consider him a valuable helper , for he increases our production and the efficiencies of our business . |
| 3 | Still , he thought , as long as Richmann considered him a superstitious peasant , he would n't consider him a threat . |
| 4 | But he 's a long way to go before I 'd consider him a success . |
| 5 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 6 | Very few people took Gedge 's humour the wrong way , but on one of those occasions an NME reviewer labelled him a ‘ gawky , arrogant mighty mouth . ’ |
| 7 | He conquered one of Europe 's toughest courses , the tour 's strongest field and the critics who labelled him a loser with his sudden-death triumph over Colin Montgomerie , elevating him back among the world 's leading players . |
| 8 | When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away . |
| 9 | He alleged Ambrose last year consistently labelled him a ‘ coward ’ because he backed away from the West Indian fast bowling , and that Richards was the most verbal player of all . |
| 10 | ‘ Send him a wire as you leave town . |
| 11 | I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys . |
| 12 | When the trial began in late February 1710 , huge crowds gathered to escort the doctor back and forth from his lodgings to Westminster Hall , shouting that they wished " God would Bless him and send him a happy deliverance " . |
| 13 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 14 | They send him a free one every six months ! |
| 15 | If the price of an earl is what he asks , send him an earl . |
| 16 | Martin Amis in 1980 when his Money could n't buy him a decent shirt |
| 17 | Soon , Freddy was asking if Mr Schwartz might buy him a suit . |
| 18 | Generally I 'd buy him a second-hand suit and take it up . |
| 19 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 20 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 21 | Maybe I should buy him a place in the country . |
| 22 | His witty daughter , who attends Gwladys Street Primary School in the shadow of Everton 's Goodison Park , says : ‘ I 'll buy him a nice present and we 'll have a little tea party for him . |
| 23 | I 'll buy him a packet of fags for erm taking us out |
| 24 | and he all he took was , like it was funny he got accepted into Oxford decided he was gon na buy him a bottle of champagne . |
| 25 | Well why does n't she buy him a computer ? |
| 26 | AT THE end of the Treta , or Second Age , Dasaratha , the childless king of the Solar race , performed the Aswa-medha sacrifice of horses and begged the gods to grant him a son . |
| 27 | The king 's original intention , goaded by the Pope 's refusal to grant him a divorce , had been to effect a greater lay control of an uncertain church . |
| 28 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 29 | For the law to grant him a defence in these circumstances would be to grant a licence for sexual exploitation . |
| 30 | It revoked the decision taken two weeks earlier to grant him a visa , on the grounds that he had refused to postpone until after the May 20 elections his planned departure from Switzerland with his wife Queen Anne and eldest daughters Princess Margerita and Princess Anne . |