Example sentences of "[verb] to him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she had closed her room door behind her , though , while there was still some part of her that did n't want to be attracted to him some other part of her was arguing , Why should n't she be attracted to him ? |
| 2 | Under the Housing Act 1980 he was empowered to ‘ do all such things as appear to him necessary or expedient ’ to enable tenants ‘ to exercise the right to buy ’ . |
| 3 | So much , too much , was happening to him all at once . |
| 4 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 5 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 6 | To this end , unbeknown to the millions who have brought about the event , Jesus Christ has been cast in the role of a surrogate Created God , and by ascribing to him all that goodness that they wish to preserve , those who profess the Christian faith , have been doing just what the concept of the Created God requires , and what this book advocates , except that they have deified a single historical individual , Jesus Christ , instead of an abstract conception drawing its being from a myriad of sources . |
| 7 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 8 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 9 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 10 | At one point we read Pip 's story and what actually happens to him that day and then the older Pip reflects on the younger Pip 's actions . |
| 11 | I would n't speak to him all the evening , or look at the things he 'd bought , even though I could see one of them was a picture-frame . |
| 12 | ‘ Why did n't you speak to him this morning ? ’ |
| 13 | and I says to him that 's one thing you never get at that , that one at Top Shop |
| 14 | So he 's got his nose to him like that and he says two so Robert Lindsay says to him free ! |
| 15 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 16 | ‘ My father found another woman who appealed to him more . |
| 17 | The voice , with its softly intimidating suggestion of Irish burr , came to him strong and confident , as if Doyle 's great bulk loomed over the bed . |
| 18 | Afterwards Mary came to him aghast , ‘ Do change your clothes , darling , I beg you . ’ |
| 19 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 20 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 21 | The directions that he may give must appear to him necessary ( but not reasonably necessary ) to prevent such disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation , and may specifically include instructions not to enter a particular area . |
| 22 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 23 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 24 | He compounded this appalling error of judgement by standing up to applaud the winners , a misguided attempt at gallantry which resulted in me trying to run out of the stadium and refusing to talk to him all the way home . |
| 25 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 26 | His thoughts were spinning , mulling over what Joseph had said to him earlier . |
| 27 | Jim Rodgers said a delegation of UUP councillors was still awaiting a meeting with the Security Minister after writing to him ten days ago . |
| 28 | In spite of what the doctors said , it seemed to him probable that the accident had irremediably damaged her brain . |
| 29 | He also remembered the look of the adjustable spanner , and it seemed to him appropriate that having been knocked down with a spanner his whole body was now apparently being alternately wrenched and tightened . |
| 30 | It seemed to him that he at last had a friend . |