Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 2 | The drama of the moment was recaptured in Perelandra , the second in the science-fiction trilogy , where Ransom remembers the strength which was given to him in a moment requiring supreme moral courage . |
| 3 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 4 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 5 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 6 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 7 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 8 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 9 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 10 | He was black and it was conveyed to him in a most unambiguous way that this would mean pressure for him , but it was the way in which he responded that challenged conventional images of black kids . |
| 11 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 12 | She shared none of his growing absorption in politics but was attuned to him in the world of magic . |
| 13 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |
| 14 | Like , cos I was talking to him in the party , yeah ? |
| 15 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 16 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |