Example sentences of "[vb infin] to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | After graduating , Keeton felt that the available fellowship should fall to him . |
| 2 | It was our bad luck that those chances should fall to him before we eventually had to bring him off . ’ |
| 3 | For example , if the male breadwinner is unemployed , more of the domestic tasks may fall to him . |
| 4 | Handling him was going to be a delicate business , and Nelson was more than relieved that the job would n't fall to him . |
| 5 | Uhtred 's and Lewis 's individualistic beliefs did not appeal to him , any more than Alcuin 's smugly intolerant one . |
| 6 | ‘ We are still anxious to trace Phil Wells in connection with the 1989 robbery at Heathrow and would appeal to him to come forward . ’ |
| 7 | One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all . |
| 8 | It occurred to me that its republication in our Symposium might both appeal to him and attract public attention : for I considered it an authoritative statement of the value of Humanism ( the title was a little misleading ) in its relation to religion . |
| 9 | If the Secretary of State for Education and Science does not want to be charged with the suppression of evidence , the Leader of the House should appeal to him to come clean , go public and reveal the evidence . |
| 10 | The prospect of eternity did not appeal to him . |
| 11 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 12 | In fact , Hoskins says that at first the film role did n't appeal to him . |
| 13 | Dad did n't object to him nosing around but I wondered what Mum would have said if she 'd been home ; she was out cleaning at the fish shop . |
| 14 | She felt sorry she had disturbed the usual calmness of a man she respected , but considered she could not apologize to him without either offending or encouraging him . |
| 15 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 16 | All you 've got to do is chat to him about Tuscany and then twist the conversation around so you can slide in a few of my questions . ’ |
| 17 | So she did not tell him that she was too shaky later to resume the conversation for a different reason ; she did not describe to him — or to the readers of Blot — what ensued . |
| 18 | He suggested that North Korea should surrender to him personally any time it was ready . |
| 19 | The person who is writing it is at a meeting so you ca n't speak to him . ’ |
| 20 | He was extremely rude to a lot of people , some of whom vowed they would never speak to him again . |
| 21 | You and Osman , you and the Fry , though you have told me of your perfect freedom and exchange of ideas etc. were never freer than Edward and I. Sometimes I wonder that I can speak to him as I do , never before having known a boy , and having only you at times to ‘ let out , on . |
| 22 | Please , would you come over to Club Eleusis and bring Malamute with you so I can speak to him ? |
| 23 | ‘ I will go and speak to him . |
| 24 | After Pendero 's race , the trainer would hardly speak to him . |
| 25 | ‘ Did you speak to him ? ’ demanded Perdita , dropping her forkful of braised fennel with a clatter . |
| 26 | The referee did n't even speak to him . |
| 27 | She replied , ‘ No , you can not speak to him . |
| 28 | But can we speak to him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No , as I said , you can not speak to him . |
| 30 | She told him that it was a life and death matter and could she speak to him ? |