Example sentences of "[been] [verb] to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 2 | And because this technique will have been explained to him during the early part of the consultation , he will find it quite simple to do . |
| 3 | ‘ Peter keeps uttering things over the years saying copyright has been given to him , that there was a letter , a document , but they 've never been produced . ’ |
| 4 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 5 | He claimed he had not signed the document properly because , it having been given to him by a ‘ gentleman ’ , he was too nervous to do so . |
| 6 | It had been given to him , the devil claimed . ’ |
| 7 | been given to him at baptism ( Luke 3:22 ) ; |
| 8 | It was here that items of the Emperor 's clothing and the superb diamond necklace which had been given to him by the Princess Borghese [ his sister , Pauline ] as well as the Landau which had escaped the Moscow disaster in 1813 ( sic ) were taken . ’ |
| 9 | First , where an application for an injunction is made ex parte and the defendant claims , or in the opinion of the court would be likely to claim , that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall not grant the injunction unless satisfied that all steps which in the circumstances were reasonable have been taken with a view to securing that notice of the application and an opportunity of being heard with respect to the application have been given to him . |
| 10 | Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix implied the document had been given to him by a friend . |
| 11 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 12 | The pupil knows that all the information required has been given to him . |
| 13 | Full instructions and documentation have been given to him . |
| 14 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
| 15 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 16 | The fundamental rationale underlying the law of confidence is that it can prevent a person divulging information which has been given to him in confidence , on an express or implicit understanding that the information should not be disclosed to others or otherwise used by the recipient of the information . |
| 17 | Even though he had accepted general responsibility for his company 's operations , and would probably have agreed to print the books had the decision been referred to him , he could not be convicted unless he had been given specific notice of the offensive material . |
| 18 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 19 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 20 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 22 | Moreover , no theft of that sort had been reported to him , which it certainly would have been ; or rather , it would have been reported to Canon Wheeler . |
| 23 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 24 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 25 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 26 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 27 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 28 | He referred to the Bible that had been presented to him by the people of Memel St on July 10 at the opening of their march . |
| 29 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 30 | She had been presented to him , rather in the way she had been presented to her mother , ten years ago , by a Jamaican midwife , in Queen Mary 's Hospital , Roehampton . |