Example sentences of "[verb] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 2 | I said I said well now someone can buy him the other one for christmas . |
| 3 | Occasionally I might buy him the big third Mac , the third Big Mac , just to prove to him he ca n't eat it , and this establishes in the superego a , that the , the superego to some extent speaks for reality and , and the reality sense is part of the , is part of the standards which are built into , which are built into the superego , and to , and therefore to a large extent the superego opposes the pleasure principle that operates in the id . |
| 4 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 5 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 6 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 9 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 10 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 11 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 16 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 17 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 18 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 19 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 20 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 21 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 22 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 23 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 24 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 25 | Celia told him the little she knew . |
| 26 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 27 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 28 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 29 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 30 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |