Example sentences of "[noun sg] to him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 2 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 3 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 4 | Partly in recompense for disbanding Wilson 's Drama Department , Newman gave the assignment to him with the expressed intention of fostering a year-round drama serial suitable for all age groups : the drive for class — indivisible Television to cross all boundaries and backgrounds . |
| 5 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 6 | That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor . |
| 7 | Both would involve payment to him of the same sum of money . |
| 8 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 9 | Close though her friendship with Gary had become she had never once breathed a word to him about the new collections she saw taking shape at Mattli — and as for ‘ pillow talk ’ the notion was absurd . |
| 10 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 11 | THE Vendor is seized of the property hereinafter described for an estate in fee simple in possession free from encumbrances save as hereinafter mentioned and has agreed with the Purchaser for the sale to him of the said property for a like estate at the price of five thousand pounds |
| 12 | Surely there could be no gain to him from the old lady 's death ? |
| 13 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |