Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Do you know that card you bought him the duck ? |
| 2 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
| 3 | But the thing he most lacked in Salzburg was the scope to exercise his powers as composer of opera , the genre which interested him the most . |
| 4 | He said that he 'd telephoned every gallery I gave him the name of . |
| 5 | Northumberland senior boys 110 metres hurdler Kevin Lumsden knocked four barriers down but won in 14.9 secs , a three-second improvement on the run which earned him the county title seven days earlier . |
| 6 | Paris bound : Paul Williamson , a chef at the Stormont Hotel , Belfast with his mouth-watering pork Craigantlet Creel dish which won him the Hastings Ulster Pork Challenge title at a competition held in the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education . |
| 7 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 8 | Eight years later , Paul was sitting in a bloke 's house in Wrexham who told him the very same joke ! |
| 9 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 10 | Quinn , meanwhile , joined Coventry with a good luck message from the boss who showed him the door at St James ' Park . |
| 11 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 12 | That kitten grew rapidly into a sleek handsome cat with a boisterous nature which earned him the name of Buster . |
| 13 | FURIOUS Nigel Mansell ended his Formula One career yesterday with a blast at the team which gave him the World Drivers ' Championship . |
| 14 | The regular conductor Bruno Walder was taken ill , and Bernstein suffering from a hangover had to take over for a Sunday afternoon concert broadcast on radio across America ; he captivated the audience and the critics , as much with his conducting prowess as with his gyrations on the podium which earned him the nickname ‘ Leaping Lennie ’ . |
| 15 | When they reached the old farmhouse she handed him the fare , absent-mindedly giving him a tip that was at least treble the size she would normally have made , barely aware of his delighted grin as she made her way towards the kitchen |
| 16 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 17 | But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year . |
| 18 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 19 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 21 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 22 | However , it is always possible that the person who sold him the goods , later acquires the title to them . |
| 23 | The employer will have a contract with the person who sold him the equipment and will probably be able to recoup his losses through a contract action . |
| 24 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 25 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 26 | Yet Erhard 's honest , calm , and fair-minded character reflected a lack of political acumen and an inability to wield authority which won him the nickname of ‘ the Rubber Lion ’ . |
| 27 | Ten minutes ahead on the clock , Short castled on the queenside and began a pawn advance which secured him the initiative . |
| 28 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 29 | For the rest of the journey I told him the plot of My Fair Lady . |
| 30 | He was quickly involved in a series of crashes which earned him the nickname |