Example sentences of "[verb] to him [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’
2 Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met .
3 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 .
4 Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes .
5 It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend .
6 Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree .
7 Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October .
8 She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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