Example sentences of "[verb] to him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 32 | In 27 BC Octavian took the name Augustus , offered to him by the Roman Senate . |
| 33 | The toy , the squeaky duck or whatever , will be offered to him by the smiling child . |
| 34 | I notice I refer to him in the past tense . |
| 35 | Emotion seemed to gush out of her eyes , nose , mouth , as she sighed , wept , mumbled between kisses , covering his face with spit , tears , lipstick and rain , clinging to him with the frantic strength of a drowning swimmer . |
| 36 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |
| 37 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 38 | Pinkie laughed , spraying a little of the brandy which had been brought to him onto the laden air . |
| 39 | It was of no consequence ; Garland knew every step of the way and Mitch trotted ahead , pursuing an erratic course as he nosed out the rich odours brought to him on the moist air . |
| 40 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 41 | He knew the way vaguely from the journey the night before and the careful directions given to him by the Prior . |
| 42 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 43 | ‘ I do n't think so , ’ he replied sullenly , unrolling his sleeves and going to the chair , where he collected the burgundy waistcoat given to him by the old man . |
| 44 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 45 | He repeated the other details about the shipment of cocaine , as relayed to him by the mysterious informant the previous night . |
| 46 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 47 | And because this technique will have been explained to him during the early part of the consultation , he will find it quite simple to do . |
| 48 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 49 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 50 | If a third party could not sue for damage caused to him by the former I can see no reason why he should be entitled to sue for damage caused to him by the latter . |
| 51 | If a third party could not sue for damage caused to him by the former I can see no reason why he should be entitled to sue for damage caused to him by the latter . |
| 52 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 53 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 54 | Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature . |
| 55 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 56 | I 'm , I 'm talking to him about the planned s filing system as well , which is |
| 57 | ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’ |
| 58 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 59 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance yet to read the excellent report submitted to him by the chief constable of Northumbria about the problem of constant reoffending on bail ? |
| 60 | 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 . |