Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since he has taken most wickets against Pakistan it is no surprise that a Pakistani , Mudassar Nazar , is Kapil Dev 's Test ‘ rabbit ’ , having fallen to him 12 times . |
| 2 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 3 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 4 | His thoughts were spinning , mulling over what Joseph had said to him earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ There is nothing I would not do for you , ’ he replied , and all at once frustrated beyond enduring , ‘ For pity 's sake , woman , ’ he implored , and , reminding her of a comment she had made to him that delightful mealtime in Bečov , ‘ give me a straight answer to a straight question — are you going to marry me ? ’ |
| 6 | It was nothing to him , of course — orders were orders — yet it had occurred to him several times that it would have been far simpler to evacuate the Shepherds than go through with all this nonsense . |
| 7 | That was how that voice had sounded to him all those years ago . |
| 8 | So you feel happier now you 've spoken to him this morning ? |
| 9 | In fact , it seems I 've spoken to him more since he left the club . |
| 10 | If he saw his father on that occasion , Martin did not remember it ; all that remained whenever he thought about him was an oppressive feeling of fear and dread associated with this house that had seemed to him dark and prison-like , smelling of dust and disinfectant and wet towels and blocked lavatories — a kind of compound reek of disease and poverty . |
| 11 | He was drawing an interesting image from the mythology of another culture and it had seemed to him fresh and new . |
| 12 | At a table in the alcove on the dining-room wall sat the girl Camb had brought to him earlier in the day , an elderly woman and a man . |
| 13 | Just before the Shah had left Iran , Admiral Habib Olahi and other commanders had gone to him one last time and asked his permission to undertake a coup . |