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Example sentences of "[verb] him the [adj] [noun] " 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	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 .
3	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 .
4	He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn .
5	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 .
6	A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure .
7	He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon .
8	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 .
9	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 !
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know .
13	She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour .
14	‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’
15	Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth .
16	When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully .
17	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 .
18	She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation .
19	I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth .
20	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 .
21	As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times .
22	‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day .
23	Endill told him the quickest way out of the school .
24	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 .
25	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 .
26	Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before .
27	Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story .
28	And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in .
29	The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized .
30	‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing .