Example sentences of "[verb] to him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 2 | Such is the notion uncritically entertained in the Alliance Report : competing candidates of the same party would make clear their differences on policy issues , and on the balanced slate so presented to him the voter would pick and choose . |
| 3 | According to him the universe sprang from fire and will end in fire . |
| 4 | Six months ago , we put to him the problem of single-union agreements and he dismissed it . |
| 5 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |
| 6 | When Robert II of Flanders passed Christmas at St Omer , ‘ there came to him the dukes , the counts , the lords of many regions , nobles and knights from the whole of Flanders , and many French bishops ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 9 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 10 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
| 11 | Forced to depart from Suxavat by its apocalyptic destruction , Urim 's final journey to the Andes reveals to him the mirror-image of the Hindu Kush of his origins . |
| 12 | But we also attribute to him the power to mediate between those same concerns and the hostile forces of disease . |
| 13 | Mr Beckenham looked down upon him from his superior height and handed to him the lady 's portmanteau . |
| 14 | Bede 's reckoning from 642 for the accession of Oswiu would suggest to him the year 664 , but if Oswiu did not succeed until 643 the reference to his twenty-second year would point to 665 as the year of the council . |
| 15 | A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358 , when Ludovic of Hungary forced the Venetians to cede to him the whole of Dalmatia , except for Ragusa . |
| 16 | Mesmerised , Kate shook her head , unable to deny to him the truth of his words . |
| 17 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 18 | We er emphasised to him the impact this would have on Oxfordshire 's er spending requirements and er the hope that the er spending that we get , and we get it in two ways ; one is through , called the standard spending grant , that is a general grant that was given to authorities to spend as they wish , and the other is a specific grants which are given for particular purposes , and some of them cover the legislation that I have mentioned , which we are required to spend specifically on the items for which they 're given . |
| 19 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
| 20 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 21 | This , however , seems to him the condemnation of such uses of the words and such forms of moral judgement . |
| 22 | This heritage gave and still attributes to him the ability to move fast , avoiding all obstacles , to do his master 's bidding . |
| 23 | The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he 's obsessed with lived . |
| 24 | This reversion to Peronism represents to him the contradiction that runs through Argentina . |
| 25 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
| 26 | The odd anecdote — for instance , James Laughlin 's of 1965 about how she advanced his education in Rapallo by reading to him the stories of Henry James — brings her momentarily into focus , but then she disappears again behind a smokescreen of gracious good breeding . |
| 27 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 28 | Eliot , in any case , looked to him the leader of a hated literary avant-garde ; the world of his poetry contemptibly dry and thin , as Lewis imagined , his mind seemingly unstoried , his passion for Sherlock Holmes a secret too well kept to save him . |
| 29 | Anna 's answer was , If you go to him the instant you are free , what will the world say ? |
| 30 | It was pleasant to stroll around on an evening such as this , thinking productively about the work which would make his name ( and his fortune ) and restore to him the sense of achievement he had so greatly enjoyed as an undergraduate journalist and Union wit . |