Example sentences of "[vb past] to him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 2 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 3 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |
| 4 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 5 | Perkin on her other side was saying contritely , ‘ Sorry , darling , sorry , ’ and she turned to him with ever-ready forgiveness , the adult of the pair . |
| 6 | She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks . |
| 7 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
| 8 | Buttoning the long fitted jacket over her expensive cream gown , she went to him on determined footsteps . |
| 9 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 10 | They listened to him in stony silence — a dozen half-starved men with their womenfolk clustered behind them , infants whimpering at their skirts . |
| 11 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 12 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |
| 13 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 14 | Gandhi wrote to him on 14 February and asked for an interview . |
| 15 | The council considered his objections by way of an informal internal appeal procedure , but wrote to him on 27 November 1991 in these terms : |
| 16 | Back home , I wrote to him on 4 July , enclosing a shortish essay which the comparative leisure afforded by leaving Oxford had made possible . |
| 17 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 18 | And then , in the following year , prompted by his frequent descriptions of his own loneliness — his fear of becoming ill , his dislike of attending receptions alone — she again wrote to him in similar terms . |