Example sentences of "[adj] to him [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 2 | And gradually it came clear to him that every job the mate had given him had been carefully chosen to help him on his way to the bridge . |
| 3 | It must have seemed clear to him that the Frankish advance could not be stopped by armed opposition , for he ceded to Charles all the territories gained across the Pyrenees . |
| 4 | Commissioner for Agriculture it became clear to him that the task ahead was not going to be easy . |
| 5 | We might be able to assist the Secretary of State , although this is unlikely to be acceptable to him or the Consortium . |
| 6 | There was no offering more gratifying to him than the trust of adolescents . |
| 7 | That he had in some way taken her aback was as obvious to him as the reason was obscure . |
| 8 | We know the promptings of his soul , and we are closer to him than the vein in his neck . |
| 9 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 10 | This meeting with Temple was so important to him that the photograph of the group hung on the wall of his room when he died . |
| 11 | It may also be very important to him that the record is transferred to his next school . |
| 12 | Slowly Michael Ramsey began to realize that the eternal verities were more important to him than the political excitements . |
| 13 | But generally it was plain to him that the cause was his familiar and wringing insufficiency . |
| 14 | Rory would be nothing more to him than a pleasant extra thrown in for good measure . |
| 15 | ( iv ) No creditor can vote at any meeting unless he has lodged with the official receiver not later than the time mentioned for this purpose in the notice convening the meetings a proof of debt , that is , a statement in the appropriate form ( see Chapter 9 ) of the amount claimed by him as due to him and the claim has been admitted for the , purpose of entitlement to vote ( r 6.93(1) ) . |
| 16 | It had not seemed possible to him that the fair creature could still be alive , for messages from native sources had indicated that Krishnapur had been invested since the beginning of June . |
| 17 | One of the oncoming dogs was slightly nearer to him than the other , and was leaping high for his throat . |
| 18 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 19 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 20 | that to him when the Celtic red mist 's before his eyes and he 's kicking your head in in a jealous rage , he thought . |
| 21 | That part of me which , when first we met , I should willingly have made over to Jean-Claude — and which he seemed to make no attempt to acquire — was , of course , no more available to him than the source of his being was to me . |
| 22 | Frequently , the scientific understanding needed for the progress he wanted to make was not available to him and the work he began did not bear fruit until after his death . |
| 23 | He continued to use the coupling after it had become apparent to him that the locking mechanism of the coupling was broken . |
| 24 | With a violence born of desperation , he swung at the bottle nearest to him and the mouth of a bottle of Tavel Rosé landed neatly in the pile of Donald 's chicken , allowing pink liquid to pulse on to the plate . |
| 25 | The girl Bob thought was his daughter had become more and more precious to him since the death of his wife Barbara . |
| 26 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 27 | An appeal to the House of Lords was the only avenue left open to him after the High Court rejected his bid to overturn the decision and then , in December , the Court of Appeal refused his application for a judicial review . |
| 28 | The world of the twentieth century was more alien to him than the more recognizable vision of hell . |
| 29 | This poem deals with Gunn 's feelings as he watches the disease strike down all those close to him and the way it changes his perceptions of life and death . |
| 30 | Delight because it brought her close to him when the cottage was empty — despair because his talent was in his hands rather than in his composing ability . |