Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] him the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for him the technology holds no fears and he is always looking for ways to make the stock market more accessible to the ordinary man or woman in the street . |
| 2 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 3 | Thus for him the male has a lesser role , simply preparing the matter contributed by the female , so that it is ready to accept the soul . |
| 4 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
| 5 | Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . |
| 6 | Not for him the elevation and security of Wordsworth 's appointment as His Majesty 's Distributor of Stamps for the County of Westmorland . |
| 7 | Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
| 8 | Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work ! |
| 9 | Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means . |
| 10 | Not for him the acrobatics that fiction attributes to the American rich . |
| 11 | She knew why she had pulled away from him the night before — because she could n't allow herself to become remotely interested in him . |
| 12 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 13 | They handed over to him the task of evaluating those reasons . |
| 14 | But Denis knew what he meant , and Boxer 's comment brought home to him the fact that even if he were able to blot out its significance he would n't be allowed . |
| 15 | She wished he could be charged because he thinks it might bring home to him the seriousness of what he has done and scare him enough to stop . |
| 16 | When she caught up with him the bombshell came . |
| 17 | When she looked up at him the year just passed faded away like an unpleasant dream . |
| 18 | Both God and nature have combined to bestow lavishly upon him the gift of perfect happiness . |
| 19 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 20 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 21 | She pointed out to him the attraction of publishing so surprising a paper and urged him to do it as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | She , contained spirit , all her fires damped , had put out to him the message that said ‘ stop ! ’ |
| 23 | He would look up from his newspaper after supper to find her eyes fixed on him , in a way which brought back to him the passion with which she had kissed him upon the moor . |
| 24 | And now he did smile , pleased by her recognition ; by her quoting back at him the poem he had read to her only two days past . |
| 25 | She 'd have done better to snap back at him the way he 'd snapped at her ! |
| 26 | I 've passed on to him the invitation to the training course on Saturday 5th September and asked him to let you know if he is able to attend . |
| 27 | We did play together , but I was n't with him the time he disappeared . |
| 28 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 29 | So Eliot wrote in 1926 when for him the poet whose ‘ horrified eyes ’ saw most clearly the ‘ chasm between the real and the ideal ’ was Baudelaire . |
| 30 | Earlier in the story Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw ahead of him the place where he thought he would kill his son . |