Example sentences of "[adv prt] to him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 12 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 17 | Had he gone out with the schedule the results would have been chaotic , yet he himself had not seen these double questions until they were pointed out to him at the internal testing stage . |
| 18 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 19 | Consisting of off-the-shelf commercial equipment that anyone might buy , it included the Sony video camera that was still signed out to him at the time of his arrest by the FBI in 1990 on a trumped-up passport charge . |
| 20 | Armed with FARMERS WEEKLY information ( read out to him over the telephone ) I was able instantly to negotiate a return to quarterly charging with my branch manager and a reduction of ½%; in the cost of my borrowing over base rate . |
| 21 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ she called out to him over the hubbub . |
| 22 | His brevet ( his flying wings in other words ) was situated some two or three inches above the pocket and when this error was pointed out to him by the more die-hard RAF characters he pointed out that the space was to make room for the VC , the DSO and the DFC . |
| 23 | I held it out to him from the pouch . |
| 24 | Alice Mair had heard the car and came out to him from the kitchen , wiping her hands . |
| 25 | He did n't pause as Dessie Burns called out to him from the hardware shop , he did n't notice Mr Kennedy looking over his glasses at all the bottles and apothecary jars in the window display of the chemist 's shop . |
| 26 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 27 | He followed their swift line as together they swung low over the water and landed , the splash of their coming rippling softly back to him on the still air . |
| 28 | " Anywhere , " we called back to him from the bow . |
| 29 | But why latch on to him as the father of her child ? |
| 30 | Results have not gone in his favour in the short-term , but I believe the club will have a job holding on to him in the future . |