Example sentences of "to he [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 2 | She had already discovered to her cost just how strongly attracted she was to him on a physical level . |
| 3 | A practitioner with any pretension to legal learning should certainly know the lines of argument that may be open to him on a disputed point of interpretation . |
| 4 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 5 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 6 | This is one where I put the price up and then we went and wrote to him with a net price list showing a lower price than I 'd put up and we had to reduce it . |
| 7 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |
| 8 | Emily turned to him with a blank expression . |
| 9 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 10 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 11 | The General , perhaps to make his point , informed Aitken of the authoritative report that the government had received and offered to lend it to him for a short while . |
| 12 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 13 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 14 | Hart listened to him for a few minutes , shouted hello to his brothers who were sitting outside and wished the boy luck . |
| 15 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 16 | " I did n't know him — I only spoke to him for a few minutes , but David Fairfax recognised him . " |
| 17 | ‘ Well , just let us talk to him for a few moments , ’ said one of them . |
| 18 | If you are referring to him to a third party , then you may wish to call him ‘ Mr Stevens senior ’ to distinguish him from myself . |
| 19 | Brinson had by this stage , therefore , acquired a reputation of not being committed to any one institution , and enquiries pointed to him as a neutral Chairman of the new panel , which he was asked to chair , and by virtue of his chairmanship he also became a member of the Creative and Performing Arts Panel , and then Board . |
| 20 | Mr Kohl helps keep Mr Schäuble 's stock high by referring to him as a future chancellor , but by ‘ future ’ he does not mean ‘ soon ’ . |
| 21 | It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child . |
| 22 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 23 | Was she genuinely reaching out to him as a last source of help ? |
| 24 | It was in meeting him on this ground that the British came closest to responding to him as a worthy adversary . |
| 25 | ‘ Sulaiman put his case as to why we should fight Tucker first , and I put mine to him about a voluntary defence , and he replied that if that was Lennox 's wish , the WBC would do all in their power to grant it . ’ |
| 26 | His typewriter unfurls metallic insectoid wings and talks to him through a sphincter-like aperture . |
| 27 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 28 | Gratification opened to him like a regained paradise . |
| 29 | She raised her face to him like a shy virgin , and he kissed her passionately on the lips while his fingers busily freed her of her underwear . |
| 30 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |