Example sentences of "[to-vb] him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For the law to grant him a defence in these circumstances would be to grant a licence for sexual exploitation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A good example is a manufacturer who sells to a reseller and requires the reseller to grant him an indemnity in respect of third party claims for product liability made against the manufacturer arising in relation to the products of the manufacturer that are sold on by the reseller . |
| 7 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 8 | It took the bank almost two months to write him a curt letter saying it was not interested . |
| 9 | And I said do you want a piece of paper to write him a message or something ? |
| 10 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 11 | Even Hun Sen , the Prime Minister , has asked the province committee to find him a village in Kep , according to Mr Sok Hay . |
| 12 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 13 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 14 | Conscious that he needed an heir , James now acquired a wife , having instructed the envoy sent to find him a suitable bride that she should not be ‘ too horrible ’ . |
| 15 | In 1829 , as the lad approached the age of 14 , decision time was coming ; if Benjamin had any yearning to go to sea like his brother , he seems to have kept it quiet , but there was every need to find him a safe and secure job with prospects . |
| 16 | Maybe a large catfish , or is it too late to find him a friend ? |
| 17 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 18 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 19 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 20 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 21 | She went to find him a pen and paper to write something for her so she could see , she could even be able to tell his character from his writing . |
| 22 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 23 | He pointed out that the council had arranged a private tutor for him while it worked on trying to find him a school . |
| 24 | ‘ It would have been terribly unfair to him and any possible new owners to find him a new home when he was in such a terrible state . |
| 25 | Darlington borough councillor Paul Geldart last night revealed how Mr O'Hare had begged the authority to find him a new home . |
| 26 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 27 | The all-round skill of Ken Macmaster helped him open up a lead of 14–8 , 17–11 , 19–14 against star bowler Ken Lamb to win 2019 to secure him a quarter-final spot . |
| 28 | But Estabrook had grown to trust him a little , even so . |
| 29 | Stockmar took care not to get involved in court favours , such as the bribe offered by an MP of £10,000 to obtain him a peerage . |
| 30 | In assumpsit in the Common Bench , it was alleged that Brathwait , having killed a man , asked the plaintiff to use his endeavours to obtain him a pardon , wherefore the plaintiff did go to Royston to the King to get the pardon and , in consideration of this service , the defendant promised the plaintiff £100 . |