Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Rear has captured the passing years on this line perfectly and his publishers are to be congratulated for allowing him the space in which to present his work . |
| 2 | CELTIC boss Liam Brady has offered Derry boy Nigel Melly a one year extension to his contract — just weeks after showing him the door . |
| 3 | And after a meeting of the club 's directors yesterday , Rovers vice-chairman Geoff Dunford revealed : ‘ We are very pleased with the job Malcolm is doing and we are considering giving him the job until the end of the season . ’ |
| 4 | Obliged to ask parliament for funds for these expeditions and for his other expenses , the King found that , instead of voting him the customs duties for life , as was normal on the monarch s accession , it attempted to impeach Buckingham for corruption and incompetence . |
| 5 | The annual conference competition to win the George Wood Cup this year took the format of target shooting ( with tennis balls ) and the Welsh dexterity of earned him the honour of collecting the cup at the conference Installation Ceremony . |
| 6 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 7 | He sued Jax Liquor Store for selling him the booze . |
| 8 | She did n't feel like giving him the news . |
| 9 | IF the man in your life is bored with socks , scarves and slippers , how about buying him the ultimate shirt for Christmas ? |
| 10 | He had tried to beat his son into giving him the respect he was unable to feel for himself . |
| 11 | I have another seven days before Jens 's cousin arrives from the States and finds his would-be protégé has been seduced into giving him the cold shoulder . ’ |
| 12 | Pickering had nurtured Davies since his days as a schoolboy triple jumper , and Davies has frequently credited Pickering with giving him the confidence to compete at top level . |
| 13 | The 26-year-old University of Natal graduate , credited his god with giving him the concentration he needed for his marathon . |
| 14 | In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job . |
| 15 | Robyn shot back , furious with herself for giving him the opportunity to make her feel foolish and inferior all over again . |
| 16 | The gods saw no solution and were steadfast in denying him the solace of their lies . |
| 17 | I did not see the value in teaching him the English equivalents of these words , and merely reminded him to talk in English . |
| 18 | I hoped my action in sending him the book would place him under a sense of obligation . |
| 19 | Harvey said , ‘ Yes , ’ very briefly , and handed it over before giving him the little 6.35-mm . |
| 20 | There was an element of choice in Sukarno 's arrest ; he could have escaped into the surrounding countryside , but he awaited capture , perhaps calculating that in arresting him the Dutch were outraging international opinion . |
| 21 | Boutros Ghali 's fluency in French , acquired as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris , was decisive in winning him the support of France which had reportedly threatened to veto a non-French-speaking candidate . |
| 22 | Political analysts said Tuesday 's outspoken comments by Mr Chirac — like Mr Giscard d'Estaing a candidate for the presidency — seemed to be a tactic to dissuade Mr Mitterrand from offering him the premiership rather than an attempt to force the president out immediately . |
| 23 | The keeper , Athelstan concluded , was not a pleasant man and on seeing him the friar believed every story he hat heard . |
| 24 | On reviving him the man told the head ganger that he had been struck by a blow at the back of the head yet medical evidence revealed no sign of injury , furthermore his whistle , flags , and lamp were never found . |
| 25 | Fear , attraction , dismay , and total confusion : she had experienced them all since meeting him the previous day . |
| 26 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 27 | She had left the previous night without speaking to him , without giving him the chance to say how sorry he was . |
| 28 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
| 29 | And without giving him the satisfaction of knowing how deeply he had hurt her . |
| 30 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |