Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 2 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 3 | Also , if I were to try to explain to him the nature of my personal circumstances , he would be embarrassed . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 6 | Davide ran his finger over the knubbled ear , and it began to seem to him a charm to bring good luck , prosperity , the ease he hoped to find , if only he could leave for America . |
| 7 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every director of a building society to satisfy himself that the arrangements made for assessing the adequacy of the security for any advance to be fully secured on land which is to be made by the society are such as may reasonably be expected to ensure that — ( a ) an assessment will be made on the occasion of each advance whether or not any previous assessment was made with a view to further advances or re-advances ; ( b ) each assessment will be made by a person holding office in or employed by the society who is competent to make the assessment and is not disqualified under this section from making it ; ( c ) each person making the assessment will have furnished to him a written report on the value of the land and any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value , and is not disqualified under this section from making a report on , the land in question ; but the arrangements need not require each report to be made with a view to a particular assessment so long as it is adequate for the purpose of making the assessment . |
| 8 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 9 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 10 | But if someone asked me what the " oldest tree in the park " meant , or what " oak " meant , or what the meaning of the sentence as a whole was , I would have to explain to him the meaning of these expressions with the help of some other expressions which he could understand . |
| 11 | The deputy headmaster arrived on the scene and the headmaster proceeded to explain to him the cause of the fuss : |
| 12 | It needed all the pride she possessed to turn to him a moment later , ashen-faced but in control . |
| 13 | I would hate to have to explain to him the true state of affairs . |
| 14 | Mafouz , a tiny , pale , Egyptian boy , had said to him a week or so ago , ‘ Sir — I am not allowed television . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 16 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 17 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 20 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 21 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
| 22 | His father-in-law had given up trying to explain to him the different cuts of meat . |
| 23 | He had outlined to him a ‘ Project for a Scientific Psychology ’ in 1895 , and it was at about this time that Freud began to become dissatisfied with Breuer 's approach . |
| 24 | The spirit , wearing wolf skins and an eagle 's mask , had read to him a kind of autobiographical fragment . |
| 25 | Under the Financial Services [ Cancellation ] Rules 1989 , an investor is entitled under certain circumstances to cancel a Plan he has opened and have returned to him the sum invested . |