Example sentences of "[verb] him a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bore him a third son , but a difficult carriage and birth presaged troubles which eventually cost her her life in her forties . |
| 2 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 3 | The reality was that he could walk into any bar or restaurant anywhere in the world and no one would give him a second glance . |
| 4 | If he appeared in that door now , probably none of the girls here would give him a second glance : it 's all long hair and round shoulders now , is n't it , like yesterday 's flowers . |
| 5 | People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance . |
| 6 | Fearful of waking him a second time I waited . |
| 7 | Two indeed were peers , one the Lord Belasyse with whom Willys again quarrelled fiercely , perhaps even sending him a second challenge . |
| 8 | So , ‘ Goodnight , ’ she bade him a second time , her goodnight this time , however , sounding husky and hasty as she started to hurry back to her room . |
| 9 | It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance . |
| 10 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 11 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 12 | when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all |
| 13 | Should the wielder attack and fail to score a hit , he may immediately re-roll the attack again , giving him a second chance to hit . |
| 14 | People strolled past without giving him a second look — couples hand in hand , families with pushchairs , groups of friends looking for a good spot to picnic . |
| 15 | Graham felt oddly satisfied at seeing life go on around him like this ; he felt almost smug at walking past people and them not giving him a second glance , at least not now he 'd got rid of Slater . |
| 16 | GUIL throws him a second coin . ) |
| 17 | Whatever time I ran him back , there was always a smiling , cheerful member of staff to greet him , strap him into the stair lift , help him to undress if necessary and even bring him a last cup of tea if he felt like one . |
| 18 | His early acquaintance with Pub ] ius Rutilius Rufus at the school of Panaetius must have given him a first taste of Roman optimates : later he had Pompey and Cicero among his admirers . |
| 19 | But he almost always gave the defendant a second chance , and sent him a second summons to appear the following week . |
| 20 | Chamoun then attempted to capitalise upon his victory by contemplating a change in the constitution that would allow him a second term as president . |
| 21 | Even the genial Binkie Beaumont was prepared to pay him a third of what the experienced Emlyn Williams knew he was worth and could get . |
| 22 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 23 | As a result , despite his good looks and affable personality , women scarcely gave him a second glance . |
| 24 | Nowadays , she probably never even gave him a second thought . |
| 25 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 26 | Selim shook hands again and gave him a second look . |
| 27 | I just ca n't see why the system gave him a second chance . |
| 28 | Charlie parted with a penny and was handed a bagful , but no one even gave him a second glance . |
| 29 | At special stage 20 , the valiant 24-year-old Scot gunned his accelerator as the marshals gave him a five-second countdown . |
| 30 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |