Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] to him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reid Livesey turned to him with a smile . |
| 2 | ‘ My wife does n't want you hanging around her like a pet dog , ’ Nahum said to him after the service one Sunday morning . |
| 3 | Donald Crubach played to him by the hour . |
| 4 | Hart listened to him for a few minutes , shouted hello to his brothers who were sitting outside and wished the boy luck . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 7 | Emily turned to him with a blank expression . |
| 8 | Australia beckoned to him like an uncut diamond . |
| 9 | He takes a piece of paper from his pocket , a letter from Claudia smuggled to him from the Drancy camp in Paris . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fred Archer referred to him as a ‘ pretty ’ jockey . |
| 12 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 13 | Whilst Richard Baxter was visiting his sick father in Shropshire , Mr. Baldwin came to him with the news that he too had been forbidden to preach . |
| 14 | ‘ John spoke to him about the inadvisability of running errands on racecourses for his warned-off father , and said that if Jason had any information , he should pass it on to him , John Millington . |
| 15 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 16 | ‘ Happy Christmas , ’ John said to him in a voice like a death rattle . |
| 17 | He let himself down beside her and took her in his arms , and Leonora yielded to him without a qualm . |