Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
2 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
3 | He looks up , the script said , and sees above him the huge , luminous eyes of a monster . |
4 | He keeps with him the Thirteen Treasures of Britain which are ancient talismans and magical objects . |
5 | But like , Mr really really bad like maths teacher , he goes erm he goes to , she goes to him the other day oh you 're only picking on me cos I got ginger hair ! |
6 | In Lawrence 's Women in Love , completed in 1916 , Birkin contemplates the purchase of a ‘ clear , beautiful chair ’ which expresses for him the living thoughts of ‘ England , even Jane Austen 's England ’ , before these were destroyed by ‘ sordid and foul mechanicalness ’ . |
7 | During his convalescence one of Larry 's colleagues , Professor Head , explains to him the basic principles of astrophysics , and it gradually becomes clear that the intra-personal death story is also a metaphoric transposition of the laws of astrophysics onto the dreaming or hallucinating mind . |