Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 2 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 3 | He had met Graham , or Green as he had referred to him throughout the interrogation , for the first time at the Windorah . |
| 4 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 5 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 6 | In the 1477/8 parliament his position there was further strengthened by the exchange of Elfael , which had come to him with the Neville land but which was peripheral to his main Welsh interests , for the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Ogmore , which complemented his holdings in Glamorgan . |
| 7 | In the 1477/8 parliament his position there was further strengthened by the exchange of Elfael , which had come to him with the Neville land but which was peripheral to his main Welsh interests , for the duchy of Lancaster lordship of Ogmore , which complemented his holdings in Glamorgan . |
| 8 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 9 | The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 . |
| 10 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 11 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 12 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 13 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 14 | What was it she had said to him about the missing family silver ? |
| 15 | Coy then took the DDI through the report Adam had made to him on the phone . |
| 16 | After his death his wife Mary wrote that the idea of symbolising logic had occurred to him at the age of 17 ( Leibniz had had similar but less developed ideas as early as 1666 ) , but several subsequent writers ( see [ 96 , p. 235 ] ) have indicated that Boole 's work on the calculus of operations in the early 1840s must have at least influenced his approach if not actually initiated it . |
| 17 | Or maybe Veronica had got to him on the subject . |
| 18 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 19 | He 's so bloated and , I mean I have n't seen him , I said I 've , I 've talked to him on the phone . |
| 20 | I 've spoken to him in the past about making the place over to you . |
| 21 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 22 | But my father never did a regular job after he come out th out of the army you know , I think it was something had happened to him in the army , he 'd got erm bomb blast or something or he was near s something when it went off and he got buried . |
| 23 | And that 's what had happened to him in the prison , because someone said , I wonder how long that will last . |
| 24 | Something had happened to him after the severance from Father Poole . |
| 25 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 26 | During the last Employment Question Time , the hon. Gentleman asked me about job clubs in his constituency , and I have written to him about the matter . |