Example sentences of "[vb pp] to him [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was resigned to him missing the return leg , but he has recovered remarkably quickly . |
| 2 | At a committee dinner held in his honour the day following his 90th birthday , Percy was told that the committee would like him to accept the role of branch president , and a commemorative plaque was presented to him to mark the occasion . |
| 3 | Julia deliberately turned to him to explain the significance of Comfort 's private jokes and fill in the background whenever she mentioned the name of one of their friends whom David could not know . |
| 4 | He is accused of conspiring with Mohammed Haque , a BCCI manager , to mislead the bank 's auditor Price Waterhouse in 1984–85 with documents alleging that companies connected to him owed the bank £2.2m . |
| 5 | He was aghast ; he had been so immersed in his work , and his late success , that it had hardly occurred to him to notice the conditions in which they lived , the state to which he had reduced Dinah . |
| 6 | The Captain signed to him to change the subject . |
| 7 | Anyone having responsibility for an assignment must have sufficient authority delegated to him to ensure the success of the assignment . |