Example sentences of "[vb pp] to him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In line with this , his observations are drawn , not from the consulting room , but from the mundanities of everyday intercourse , while very great pains are taken to record only what the narrator directly observed , or had reported to him on good authority .
2 He did n't like to think too much about one of the conversations that Jack Ashdown had reported to him on one of Joe 's occasional check-ins .
3 In a letter addressed to him in 476 or 477 , Sidonius talks of Euric restraining weapons with laws .
4 For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds .
5 At the sixth , 64 more transferred from Crilly ( WP ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from four other candidates , F , Cl , H and B.
6 At the eighth count he received 42 more , transferred from Egan ( PG ) , eliminated , who had had voted transferred to him from five other candidates , F , H , B , Cr and O'S .
7 At the fourteenth count , 876 more transferred from Doyle ( FG ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA and B.
8 Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D.
9 At the eleventh count , 839 more transferred from Smith ( WP ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from nine other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M and R.
10 At the thirteenth count , 16 more transferred from the surplus of Brady ( FF ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from eleven other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S and McA .
11 At the fifth , 19 more transferred from Brennan ( Ind ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from three other candidates , F , Cl and H.
12 At the seventh , 72 more transferred from O'Snodaigh ( SF ) , who had had votes transferred to him from three other candidates , Cl , B and Cr .
13 At the tenth count , 104 more transferred from Ryan ( FF ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from seven other candidates .
14 ‘ It 's heart-warming , ’ volunteered Mr Kronweiser , ‘ that justice will be done to him at last . ’
15 Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) .
16 A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult .
17 Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night .
18 True , Edward 's failure on the expedition of 1359–60 ( when he had not been able to capture either Reims , where kings of France were crowned , or Paris , the capital ) meant that he had to forego the important territorial concessions made to him in 1359 , including Normandy and the Angevin lands in central-western France .
19 Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years .
20 For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money .
21 Let me give you one scripture in closing , in two Timothy chapter one and verse twelve , the apostle says , for this reason , he says I suffer these things but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed , and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day .
22 I 'm convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day .
23 On a similar tack , Guttersnipe would be intrigued to discover whether Mr Wahlberg was responsible for any more than 20 per cent of the many sexual peccadilloes attributed to him in this column .
24 Wasim , though has been reprimanded by Lancashire for comments attributed to him in this book .
25 Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position .
26 India 's Shia Muslims , who were antagonistic to Mr Hussein over his war against Iran , have rallied to him with surprising haste .
27 He looked and saw the clergyman 's two children , known to him from past association .
28 Williamson felt he had a special bond with Hitler , and even at times imagined aloud that he had spoken to him on that fateful Christmas day .
29 Do n't know , I 've never spoken to him at all , do n't know
30 Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents .
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