Example sentences of "to he [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory would be nothing more to him than a pleasant extra thrown in for good measure . |
| 2 | Slowly Michael Ramsey began to realize that the eternal verities were more important to him than the political excitements . |
| 3 | We know the promptings of his soul , and we are closer to him than the vein in his neck . |
| 4 | That part of me which , when first we met , I should willingly have made over to Jean-Claude — and which he seemed to make no attempt to acquire — was , of course , no more available to him than the source of his being was to me . |
| 5 | There was no offering more gratifying to him than the trust of adolescents . |
| 6 | But when the whole sum is due , by no intendment the acceptance of parcel can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff ; but in the case at bar it was resolved that the payment and acceptance of parcel before the day in satisfaction of the whole would be a good satisfaction in regard of circumstance of time ; for peradventure parcel of it before the day would be more beneficial to him than the whole at the day , and the value of the satisfaction is not material ; so if I am bound in £20 to pay you £10 at Westminster , and you request me to pay you £5 at the day at York , and you will accept it in full satisfaction for the whole £10 , it is a good satisfaction for the whole , for the expenses to pay it at York is sufficient satisfaction . ’ |
| 7 | One of the oncoming dogs was slightly nearer to him than the other , and was leaping high for his throat . |
| 8 | But then Barry has more sides to him than the Sunday Football League . |
| 9 | The world of the twentieth century was more alien to him than the more recognizable vision of hell . |
| 10 | There was more to him than the dying . |
| 11 | The neighbourhood policeman attempted to speak to him but the child ran away . |
| 12 | Many aspects of the post-conciliar debate seemed simply , and not surprisingly , to have passed him by — they seemed to him but the fashionable irrelevancies of a West that had had it rather too good , yet dangerous temptations too . |
| 13 | Now there was nothing left to him but the conflicting passions of his terror and his furious pride , knotted together in inextricable warfare in his bowels . |
| 14 | The dog was lying there last night and Patricia said something to him , I do n't know what she said to him but the look on his face . |
| 15 | While they walked she explained to him that no other boy in the whole of England could even hope to own a bomber jacket like his . |
| 16 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 17 | It never seemed to occur to him that a general idea might be an entirely different sort of thing from an image . |
| 18 | When the Problem Solver reports to him that a problem has been resolved the Computer Group Manager should give his agreement to the closure of the problem report . |
| 19 | On this occasion , his uncle , the peppery old Nabob , was bidden to dine at the Cecil Hotel , in order that it might be proved to him that a respectable curry could be had outside the portals of the East India Club . |
| 20 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 21 | It occurred to him that a full belly was not all he had his tedious employment to thank for . |
| 22 | There was nothing else to cause alarm but it seemed to him that every now and then the dark object from which the movement came itself heaved a little , grew larger , and then fell back . |
| 23 | And gradually it came clear to him that every job the mate had given him had been carefully chosen to help him on his way to the bridge . |
| 24 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 25 | This meeting with Temple was so important to him that the photograph of the group hung on the wall of his room when he died . |
| 26 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 27 | When he turned to look , it seemed to him that the hospital was moving away from him like a phantom ship , butting through the September mists . |
| 28 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 29 | It must have seemed clear to him that the Frankish advance could not be stopped by armed opposition , for he ceded to Charles all the territories gained across the Pyrenees . |
| 30 | It may also be very important to him that the record is transferred to his next school . |