Example sentences of "[verb] him the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn .
2 They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day .
3 A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure .
4 Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed .
5 She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour .
6 ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’
7 ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day .
8 And would Feargal now give him the third degree ?
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 ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her .
11 Give him the first half , and see what he would do .
12 As a matter of fact I usually just give him the first line or two and leave him to get on with it .
13 During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday .
14 You 're always give him the last sweet to him !
15 That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions .
16 Riding him the next day , it was as if the handbrake had come off .
17 It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims .
18 Then I 'll decide whether to post him the last reels of film in a Jiffy bag or fly back to London with them myself .
19 IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador .
20 He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series .
21 Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings .
22 Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States .
23 ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . )
24 Jamie Spence 's win in the Canon European Masters made him the sixth first-time winner on this season 's Volvo Tour .
25 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 .
26 ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’
27 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 .
28 What do I tell him the next time he asks
29 Well ask him the next time you see him .
30 It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day .
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