Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 2 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 3 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
| 4 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 5 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 6 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 7 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 8 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 9 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 10 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
| 11 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
| 13 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 14 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
| 15 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 16 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 17 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |
| 18 | You know that 's what I said to him on the phone ! |
| 19 | And I said to him on the weekend . |
| 20 | that 's cos I said to him round the other way |
| 21 | I explained to him about the boxing-match and the waterfall and he went up close and examined the glass minutely , different areas of it , taking his time . |
| 22 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 23 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 24 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 25 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 26 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 27 | He dumped his kitbag and led her to an armchair , but she clung to him in a state of possessive disbelief which upset Charles even more than the deep depression he 'd been suffering from when he entered the flat . |
| 28 | You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . " |
| 29 | She turned to him with an affectionate grin , knowing his soft heart had been hugely moved by the children that afternoon . |
| 30 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |