Example sentences of "[vb pp] to him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | How could she get through an evening in his company when everything that was female in her responded to him in a way that knocked her totally off balance ? |
| 3 | Judge Hand 's refusal to comply with the request addressed to him in the Mexico City case rested on two grounds . |
| 4 | The Collector of Taxes in Glasgow in 1831 was one Blair , and the Loyal Reformers ' Gazette , a radical publication of the time , has a letter addressed to him in the following terms : |
| 5 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 6 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 7 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 8 | Mr Arrica rubbishes this view because he comprehends the essential decency of all things English , a truth revealed to him in the form of a Burberry raincoat bought from George Best 's Manchester boutique circa 1965 . |
| 9 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 10 | Then , as the final genuflexions were being made , Mandru clapped his hands together once , and the vibrancers bowed to him in a solemn fashion , before running from his presence through a curtained doorway behind his couch . |
| 11 | The third servant simply buried the funds entrusted to him in a hole in the ground for safekeeping and was condemned for his worthlessness because he had not even taken the ( virtually riskless ) alternative of leaving the money on deposit with the bankers . |
| 12 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 13 | He was black and it was conveyed to him in a most unambiguous way that this would mean pressure for him , but it was the way in which he responded that challenged conventional images of black kids . |
| 14 | Harris research director Robert Waller may not care to be reminded of a quote attributed to him in The Independent on Sunday on March 8 at the start of the campaign : ‘ Oh yes , it 's exciting . |
| 15 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 16 | FISA president Max Mosley told a news conference that the French Formula One driver would not be disciplined for highly critical remarks about FISA officials attributed to him in an interview with a French magazine . |
| 17 | Each pair of dovetailing decisions ( each market transaction completed ) constitutes a case in which each party is being offered an opportunity which , to the best of his knowledge , is the best being offered to him in the market . |
| 18 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 19 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 20 | I 've spoken to him in the past about making the place over to you . |
| 21 | While the removal of individual rivals unquestionably smoothed Franco 's path to power , what really launched him upon it was the role allotted to him in the rising and the manner in which this role was played out . |
| 22 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 23 | He 'd had some bad news brought to him in the nick by his mother , the Wicked Witch of Woolwich . |
| 24 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 25 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 26 | The drama of the moment was recaptured in Perelandra , the second in the science-fiction trilogy , where Ransom remembers the strength which was given to him in a moment requiring supreme moral courage . |
| 27 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 28 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
| 29 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 30 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |