Example sentences of "to he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Dalgliesh had indeed seemed to him immortal . |
| 2 | In spite of what the doctors said , it seemed to him probable that the accident had irremediably damaged her brain . |
| 3 | ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times , ’ his great-uncle was grumbling . |
| 4 | In the first instance , the section permitted a chief officer of police who reasonably apprehended that a procession ‘ may occasion serious public disorder ’ to impose such conditions ‘ as appear[ed] to him necessary for the preservation of public order ’ . |
| 5 | Under the Housing Act 1980 he was empowered to ‘ do all such things as appear to him necessary or expedient ’ to enable tenants ‘ to exercise the right to buy ’ . |
| 6 | The directions that he may give must appear to him necessary ( but not reasonably necessary ) to prevent such disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation , and may specifically include instructions not to enter a particular area . |
| 7 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 8 | But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued . |
| 9 | I thought of how Vinoba Bhave would regard the rain — to him all things are manifestations of the divine . |
| 10 | But also , he has available to him all the vast resources of libraries which can provide him with books , pamphlets , research reports , theses , journals , conference reports , and so on . |
| 11 | To this end , unbeknown to the millions who have brought about the event , Jesus Christ has been cast in the role of a surrogate Created God , and by ascribing to him all that goodness that they wish to preserve , those who profess the Christian faith , have been doing just what the concept of the Created God requires , and what this book advocates , except that they have deified a single historical individual , Jesus Christ , instead of an abstract conception drawing its being from a myriad of sources . |
| 12 | So much , too much , was happening to him all at once . |
| 13 | I wish , therefore , that you will convey to him all I am about to say . ’ |
| 14 | That was how that voice had sounded to him all those years ago . |
| 15 | He did n't know how to cope with someone who was nice to him all the time because all the other people that he knew best ( including his parents ) had always been unkind to him . |
| 16 | By talking to him all night and keeping him on his feet , Luke had saved Spike 's life , only to have him try again successfully a week later when the story finally hit the press . |
| 17 | To him all aircraft were harbingers of dreadful change , mere noisy messengers of a Godless world ; which , I realised , was a pretty accurate description of the Maggot himself . |
| 18 | He compounded this appalling error of judgement by standing up to applaud the winners , a misguided attempt at gallantry which resulted in me trying to run out of the stadium and refusing to talk to him all the way home . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) The defendants were the plaintiff 's agents for the sale of Caliban and as such owed him contractual and fiduciary duties to disclose to him all material matters concerning the sale so that he would be able to make an informed judgment as to what price to accept for Caliban. ( 2 ) The defendants were also under a fiduciary duty not to put themselves in a position where their duties to the plaintiff were in conflict with their own interests or those of any other of their clients . |
| 20 | I would n't speak to him all the evening , or look at the things he 'd bought , even though I could see one of them was a picture-frame . |
| 21 | I was nice to him all day . |
| 22 | Fat Dick the sound man was peeing in the river last night when one of the Indians came up to him all agitated , making lots of gestures , sign language , sort of swimming with his hands and so on . |
| 23 | John Hay , seeing Johnson 's fear , talked to him all the time as to a child , trying to keep him cheerful , but this measure only excited Boswell 's scorn , especially when he heard Hay trying to distract Johnson with the antics of the local goats . |
| 24 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 25 | Had Hotspur even confided to him all that she had urged and confessed , yesterday evening ? |
| 26 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 27 | I noticed that Harvey had forgotten his resolve not to let Pike get a good look at him and stayed close to him all the time . |
| 28 | Lucie , who had been calling to him all the while , unheard above the din , caught him in both arms and ran with him , up the steps and through the chapel door which Izzie was holding open . |
| 29 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |
| 30 | Cos Lee , since this one 's been talking to him all the time |