Example sentences of "[v-ing] to him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 2 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 3 | ‘ We will be listening to him in the wings every night . ’ |
| 4 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 5 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 6 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 7 | His fleshy paunch was hanging over his sweaty jeans with the legs of his trousers clinging to him with the viscosity of four week old socks sticking to the bedroom wall . |
| 8 | She grasped his body , his hair , clinging to him on the brink of chaos . |
| 9 | Worse , I could see clearly the image of Mala clinging to him within the circle of the powerful golden arm . |
| 10 | He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her . |
| 11 | He apologized when he was close enough , because he guessed he had n't been able to hear Lavinia calling to him above the noise of the Suffolk Punch . |
| 12 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 13 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 14 | His first loves — to make use of Klima 's title — prove to be his last , but prove as engrossing to him as the lyrics in which his emotional development is encoded . |
| 15 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 16 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 17 | Coffin said , ‘ I think you took a risk , talking to him in the park . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |
| 19 | Like , cos I was talking to him in the party , yeah ? |
| 20 | Chatting to him about the service ( on February 16 , two days after the Valentines ' martyrdom ) it was clear he might take the opportunity to make a point or two about the state of modern human relationships as not touched on in your average Valentine 's card . |
| 21 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |