Example sentences of "to him [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 2 | This time the children nearest to him slouched to a standstill , but the others continued moving and chattering . |
| 3 | Both victims were brought to him limp in the arms of their supporters and their condition appeared dire . |
| 4 | He also intervenes in the life of another guest at the party , Celia Coplestone , a young woman who comes to him filled with a sense " … of emptiness , of failure " . |
| 5 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 6 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 7 | Beauty to him came from the soul , as we say , and he saw it as his task to exteriorise it in some way that harmonized with the subject matter . |
| 8 | The male body was of little aesthetic interest to him , and the female was so mutable , so much a function of its own motion , or that of light across it , that all static representation seemed to him doomed from the outset . |
| 9 | The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard . |
| 10 | If any forester do find any trespasser wandering within his liberty … within the forest … and after hue and cry made to him to stand unto the peace , will not yield himself , but flee or resist … if the forester do kill any such offender , he shall not be impeached for this felony . |
| 11 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |
| 12 | It did not occur to him to look for a seat outside Worcestershire , and even if it had there was little reason why he should have secured one . |
| 13 | She turns her back to him to look in the mirror beside the cherrywood armoire . |
| 14 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 15 | A statue to him stands at the junction of Seagate and Castle Street , Irvine . |
| 16 | Lorrimer 's voice came to him muffled by the handkerchief . |
| 17 | He jacked it up and watched as a station logo which meant nothing to him appeared on the screen . |
| 18 | He has obligations not merely to the students who come to him to read for a degree , but still more towards the teeming population outside the University walls , most of whom have not so much as " heard whether there be any Holy Ghost " . |
| 19 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |