Example sentences of "to him [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talked to him a week before he died . |
| 2 | Mafouz , a tiny , pale , Egyptian boy , had said to him a week or so ago , ‘ Sir — I am not allowed television . |
| 3 | A history lecturer , U Myo Min , brought to him a book that he had written about the subject . |
| 4 | This committee suggested to him a policy that included a tribunal to fix the labourers " wages . |
| 5 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 6 | Bernard Rhodes , for example , was always in the shop and he was always up for a chat I talked to him a lot and we struck up a rapport . |
| 7 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 8 | She , contained spirit , all her fires damped , had put out to him the message that said ‘ stop ! ’ |
| 9 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 10 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 11 | But Denis knew what he meant , and Boxer 's comment brought home to him the fact that even if he were able to blot out its significance he would n't be allowed . |
| 12 | This reversion to Peronism represents to him the contradiction that runs through Argentina . |