Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 2 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 3 | This committee suggested to him a policy that included a tribunal to fix the labourers " wages . |
| 4 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 5 | Even her timidity seemed to him a sham . |
| 6 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 7 | The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he 's obsessed with lived . |
| 8 | Before Peter leaves the ward the doctor explains to him the regime of drugs which are to be prescribed . |
| 9 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 10 | This reversion to Peronism represents to him the contradiction that runs through Argentina . |
| 11 | And my mam went to him every day with the nurses oh it was months and months and months until it was completely cleared . |