Example sentences of "[vb past] to him on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 2 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 3 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 4 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 5 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 6 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 7 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 8 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
| 9 | He met poets like Ungharetti and Montale , and had an audience with Pope Pius XII — the Pontiff spoke to him on the theme of poetry and religion , although Eliot knew quite enough about that subject already . |
| 10 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 11 | She did not reply to his cards , and when she spoke to him on the telephone he said she always declined his invitations firmly . |
| 12 | From the warmth in her voice , she spoke to him on the comm , I began to suspect that she and Chertro might have been more than friends at one time . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
| 14 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 15 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
| 16 | You know that 's what I said to him on the phone ! |
| 17 | And I said to him on the weekend . |
| 18 | ‘ I think you wrote to him on the day that he died . |