Example sentences of "[verb] him the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 6 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 11 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 12 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 13 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 16 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 19 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 20 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 24 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 25 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 26 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 27 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 28 | If he needs a more imaginative approach to biblical meditation , show him the Ignatian method . |
| 29 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 30 | The world No 1 blames the media for the pressure which almost cost him the Open Championship at Muirfield — and also blitzed the Americans for their win-at-all-costs attitude to the Ryder Cup . |