Example sentences of "[vb past] to him the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I spoke to him the night before last , and he 's doing fine . |
| 9 | Course , this morning yesterday while he was at home , I said to him the bathroom radiator 's just not quite warm enough Pete can you adjust it ? |