Example sentences of "[vb past] to him [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 2 | Strange as it may now seem , the primacy of Canterbury seemed to him an immovable feature which guaranteed the firmness of the whole structure . |
| 3 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 4 | Norman Bowler witnessed the vagaries of Minton 's existence at this time , but the older man also revealed to him a tender side which his performance in public obscured . |
| 5 | It brought to him a sublime peace and contentment . |
| 6 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 7 | you said to him the other night . |
| 8 | I said to him the other day , well four weeks ago . |
| 9 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |
| 10 | I said to him the other morning I said do that again I said look , I 'll get you out of bed . |
| 11 | I then quoted to him a remarkable analysis of how drivers must use their minds . |
| 12 | To the day of his death on the guillotine in January 1793 France remained to him an unknown land . |