Example sentences of "[adv prt] to him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dennant v. Skinner ( 1948 K.B. ) the buyer had a van knocked down to him at an auction . |
| 2 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 3 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 4 | But there was a part of her that still would n't give in to him without a fight . |
| 5 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 6 | When Sigarup climbed up the ladder , straining under the weight of his basket , the dog sidled over to him with a low unearthly grunt of pleasure . |
| 7 | Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time . |
| 8 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Garry and Maeve intend to take their time in getting it over to him in a way he will understand , ’ said 72-year-old Luise , of Milton Keynes , Bucks , yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 11 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 12 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 13 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 14 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |
| 15 | Dana could n't stand up to him for a moment . ’ |
| 16 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's a really big man , both physically and in terms of his character , and I really looked up to him as a tower of strength when we were doing Neighbours . ’ |
| 18 | He went up to him before the meeting and said , ‘ This is the race that is going to decide between us as to who is going to be the number one . ’ |
| 19 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 20 | He replaced Michael Duane with his old friend , Peter Solowka , who was disillusioned with the jobs opened up to him by a degree in environmental biology . |
| 21 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 22 | But he gets very angry if they come up to him in a restaurant when he is eating or if he is busy talking to someone else , ’ says Marci . |
| 23 | Stuart 's Mum rushed up to him in a panic . |
| 24 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 25 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 26 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 27 | She should go back to her own bed and not risk either of them getting into more trouble , but he liked having the silly little thing cuddled up to him like a rabbit . |
| 28 | She could feel that she was already soaking wet as she nuzzled up to him like a happy , purring cat . |
| 29 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |
| 30 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |