Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] to him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He repeated the other details about the shipment of cocaine , as relayed to him by the mysterious informant the previous night . |
| 2 | If the Secretary of State is satisfied … that any local education authority … have acted or are proposing to act unreasonably … he may … give such directions … as appear to him to be expedient . |
| 3 | He even had the amplitude to take a glass of port with Mr Joseph Robinson and talk as well as listen to him about the Battle of the Nile . |
| 4 | M E Tralbaut recounts the story of Vincent 's actual departure from Belgium 's black country , as told to him by his old friend Louis Piérard , who knew the widow of the pastor of Warquignies well . |
| 5 | Although happy at first with the series concept as handed to him by Donald Wilson , David Whitaker 's under-lying love for ‘ ripping yarn ’ storytelling was threatening to draw him into conflict with Newman 's wish to present educative and allegorical discussion of social issues within the show 's framework . |
| 6 | His first loves — to make use of Klima 's title — prove to be his last , but prove as engrossing to him as the lyrics in which his emotional development is encoded . |
| 7 | The ocean carrier in the Roman receptum nautae was liable to his consignee to deliver the goods at the end of the journey in the same condition as delivered to him by the consignor , even if the damage occurred without the carrier 's fault . |
| 8 | He thought of his authority as delegated to him by his subjects and thus contractual in origin . |
| 9 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |