Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 2 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 3 | He referred to me as his ‘ Princess ’ and I referred to him as ‘ the Prince ’ ! |
| 4 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 5 | I 'm kind of partial to Teles , so I talked to him about making a Tele version . |
| 6 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
| 7 | I recently discovered the answer to these questions from Willie Lamont , as I talked to him about his approach to history . |
| 8 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 9 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 10 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 11 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 12 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 13 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 14 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 15 | That confidence was echoed by Peter Scudamore when I spoke to him at Towcester yesterday . |
| 16 | ‘ I spoke to him on Sunday night and he wished me all the best , while I thanked him . |
| 17 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
| 18 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
| 20 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 21 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
| 22 | I spoke to him on Wednesday , I phoned him . |
| 23 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 24 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 25 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 26 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 27 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 28 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 29 | Incidentally , I spoke to him by house telephone yesterday evening shortly after eight o'clock and , again , at about nine fifteen . |
| 30 | I spoke to him in all the languages I knew , but we still could not understand each other . |