Example sentences of "[vb past] to him [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 2 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 3 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 4 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 5 | ‘ A creeping sense of sickness comes over me at the unnecessariness of mediocre painting , ’ he wrote , admitting also that he sat back , whilst others indulged in what seemed to him brittle insanity , ‘ with a sort of smothered grin and tight feeling of suffocation ’ . |
| 6 | What happened to him that year is typical of what has often happened at Ferrari : questions of detail . |
| 7 | ’ Did you hear what happened to him this morning ? |
| 8 | She administered to him some wine diluted in water . |
| 9 | Oh , and we 're backdating the warning to cover the stuff you returned to him last week . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I love it when you do that … ’ she whispered to him one day as they made love , and he laughed softly , looking down at her , such warmth in his face that her heart stopped and her smile faded . |
| 11 | But Henry broke away from the SACB after an incident which proved to him that apartheid was a two-way affair . |
| 12 | I spoke to him last night as well . |
| 13 | So I said , well come on you 've got ta be reasonable with me so I spoke to him last week and he says , look you did n't have one last year so I 'll give you two . |
| 14 | And say he 's round about the fortyish age and we spoke to him last week and I said you got a job yet ? |
| 15 | ‘ I spoke to him last month and he was laughing about it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I spoke to him this morning . ’ |
| 17 | Well like I said to him that milk round |
| 18 | So erm anyway goes in , I said to him other day , I asked him other week , he says our turn to give me a ring |
| 19 | I said to him one day . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're losing your hair , Will , ’ I said to him one day . |
| 21 | er , now he does n't like to talk about it you see , and I said to him one day look Paul for god sake , oh , he 'll tell his mum , but he does n't like to talk about it to me |
| 22 | So I said to him well mammy wants a freezer he said oh shut your mouth I 'm not getting you one . |
| 23 | He just was in there doing something the children went out and he said I said to him good morning , he said good morning . |
| 24 | I said to him this morning I said what sick joke 's this ? |
| 25 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 26 | And I said to him last night |
| 27 | Could be any time now , we 're just waiting tha Mr explained to him this morning , you know , why it , it ta takes so long |