Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 2 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
| 3 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 4 | ‘ So you gave him the key . |
| 5 | He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti . |
| 6 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 7 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 8 | After a few minutes , he got out and wandered over : ‘ Here , son , give me a shot at that , ’ he said , and I passed him the rod . |
| 9 | And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’ |
| 10 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 11 | ‘ And I told him the mud in the high street was an absolute disgrace . |
| 12 | and I told him the ones to see . |
| 13 | That Saturday when ( the Iranian contact ) was in Washington , I flew up to Camp David to talk to the President , and I showed him the ( weapons ) list , and he said , ‘ Why are you thinking so small ? ’ |
| 14 | and I showed him the escape hatch in the cockpit , " open this hatch and get out and get as far away from the aircraft as you can " . |
| 15 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 16 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 17 | Well I suppose I 'm sure Adrian wo n't mind if I paid him the day after or a week after or something . |
| 18 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 19 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
| 20 | In the morning after their breakfast coffee , he stood silently and balefully near her until she gave him the fare to Dublin . |
| 21 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 22 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 23 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 24 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 25 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 26 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 27 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 28 | They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract . |
| 29 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 30 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |