Example sentences of "was [verb] to him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 2 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 3 | Henry Calverley , a friend of the family , asked for the arrow to use as a trophy and it was given to him on condition he solemnly promised not to reveal its origin . |
| 4 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
| 5 | Incidentally , the comedian Des O'Connor owns a guitar which was given to him by Holly , while Buddy was on tour in the UK . |
| 6 | claimed that his power was given to him by god , but everyone knew that the throne had been seized by his father . |
| 7 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 8 | The drama of the moment was recaptured in Perelandra , the second in the science-fiction trilogy , where Ransom remembers the strength which was given to him in a moment requiring supreme moral courage . |
| 9 | Jesus had no power of himself , he only communicated and performed through that which was given to him in relationship with the Father ( John 17:7f ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Words fail one at such moments ’ said the President when the news was broken to him at the Kremlin by the Norwegian Ambassador , but immediately recovering his powers of speech , he said he did n't see the prize as a personal achievement . |
| 11 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 12 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 13 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 14 | As a consequence , both Cushing and Lovett resigned , as did the 44-times capped McHarg when the news was relayed to him in India , which is a sad way to end a relationship which stretches back for well over two decades . |
| 15 | It was n't as if she was attracted to him as an individual . |
| 16 | He handed it across to the Colonel who noticed with some satisfaction that it was addressed to him by name and not merely as commanding officer . |
| 17 | ‘ Abraham ‘ believed God , and it was reckoned to him as righteousness ’ ( Galatians 3.6 ) . |
| 18 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 19 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 20 | Everyone 's face was turned to him as if he was their last chance . |
| 21 | Her pale , plain face was turned to him as a flower turns to the sun . |
| 22 | His reward — a £200 cheque , an engraved paperweight and a certificate — was presented to him by Colonel Douglas Spratt , President of the Edinburgh branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing at a special students ‘ evening . |
| 23 | To celebrate the occasion , an inscribed watch was presented to him by Ralph Ellis , Group Managing Director and John Stewart , Managing Director of Lyles . |
| 24 | Graham has been with the company for 25 years and to mark the occasion of his first quarter century achievement , an inscribed watch was presented to him by Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive of Stoddard Sekers International Plc . |
| 25 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 26 | Robin Smith has won the England player of the year award which was presented to him in London last night by the sponsors , Cornhill Insurance . |
| 27 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 28 | Roxburgh 's point on the subject of Ferguson 's fledgling status was well made , too , but even he finished up with the impression that nobody was listening to him at yesterday 's press conference . |
| 29 | It had been taken by a pilot who was shocked out of his atheism and into the Church by what was revealed to him in his darkroom . |
| 30 | It is arguable that here Anselm is not thinking of God in terms very different from those of Kant , the severest critic of his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ ( at least in the form in which it was mediated to him by Descartes ) . |