Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] to him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 2 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 3 | Do you remember saying goodbye to him on the wharf with Tim 's tiny topi sitting on top of his head to amuse you ? |
| 4 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 5 | She saw Jesus Christ as the bridge between God and man , who showed just how much God loves us and gave access to Him without the need of other intermediaries . |
| 6 | Both would involve payment to him of the same sum of money . |
| 7 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |