Example sentences of "to him [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 2 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 3 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 4 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Was she genuinely reaching out to him as a last source of help ? |
| 7 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 8 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 9 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 10 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 11 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 12 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 13 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 14 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 16 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 17 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 18 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 19 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 20 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 21 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |