Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 2 | Obviously he did n't remember me , for when the College wrote to him for a reference , he replied that he had not heard of me . |
| 3 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 4 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 5 | Reid Livesey turned to him with a smile . |
| 6 | ‘ My wife does n't want you hanging around her like a pet dog , ’ Nahum said to him after the service one Sunday morning . |
| 7 | Gratification opened to him like a regained paradise . |
| 8 | Donald Crubach played to him by the hour . |
| 9 | Hart listened to him for a few minutes , shouted hello to his brothers who were sitting outside and wished the boy luck . |
| 10 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 11 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 14 | Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital . |
| 15 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 16 | An eager public woman appealed to him with the story of her cleaning woman , who had proved herself at fault . |
| 17 | Emily turned to him with a blank expression . |
| 18 | Australia beckoned to him like an uncut diamond . |
| 19 | He takes a piece of paper from his pocket , a letter from Claudia smuggled to him from the Drancy camp in Paris . |
| 20 | He met poets like Ungharetti and Montale , and had an audience with Pope Pius XII — the Pontiff spoke to him on the theme of poetry and religion , although Eliot knew quite enough about that subject already . |
| 21 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 22 | Fred Archer referred to him as a ‘ pretty ’ jockey . |
| 23 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 24 | A satirical poem alluded to him as a ‘ spiritual dragoon ’ . |
| 25 | The thought came to him in an instant as he stood , hesitating over whether to join the fight . |
| 26 | Carrie 's voice came to him in the darkness . |
| 27 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 28 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 29 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 30 | It was late in the afternoon , during double English , that the answer came to him like a bolt out of the blue . |