Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 2 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 3 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 4 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 5 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 6 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |
| 7 | And if Thomas had been any older I do n't know quite how I would have explained it to him . |
| 8 | Having given herself to him , she was his . |
| 9 | Dad must have said something to him about it . |
| 10 | I could never have said it to him face to face , but over the telephone I hesitated and said , ‘ But I thought the newspaper business was booming ! ’ |
| 11 | Before I go to sleep I wonder about whether I should have said anything to him about Mr Archer and his phone calls and Ares . |
| 12 | She knew what he wanted before he spoke , and also knew she would have to give it to him . |
| 13 | She 'd have to mention it to him — and pretty soon , if Loren 's slightly wild-eyed look was any kind of an omen . |
| 14 | Had my son lived , I could have left it to him . |
| 15 | I should n't have left it to him ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 've explained it to him and it 's not fair on him being exposed to some of our defending in recent weeks . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 18 | There was a wealth of passion in him , but whether — perhaps because of her very limited experience in these matters — something of her shyness had communicated itself to him or not , he had seemed to temper his passion , for the moment , to suit hers . |
| 19 | Uncle Walter had given them to him , Philip . |
| 20 | If the Council 's Temporary Press Officer , who had been appointed solely to deal with the alleged child abuse controversy , had been given such confidential information , she said , they wanted to know who had given it to him . |
| 21 | Ivan had given it to him , with the wooden doll he 'd made for Valeria . |
| 22 | Full of interest and packed with information and statistics , it was a great performance , but the Dean frankly acknowledged that credit for it was due to Charles Gorham who had prepared the paper and had given it to him to read . |
| 23 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 24 | Isabelle had loved another man — had given herself to him with disastrous consequences — and here was Sabine , the living proof , the cuckoo in the conventional Russell family nest . |
| 25 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 26 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |
| 27 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 28 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 29 | Nurse had said nothing to him about worms . |
| 30 | Wagnerian music in general had now taken its hold and was irresistibly leading Nietzsche to admit a response diametrically opposed to the objectivity that had commended itself to him before . |