Example sentences of "to him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuan Ti Fo smiled , holding the boy to him a while , conscious yet again of how insubstantial he seemed . |
| 2 | He glanced towards Grégoire , knowing that happiness sprang from him ; he had brought Edouard love ; he had also given back to him a sense of purpose . |
| 3 | Again there came to him a sense of how small a town of some eighty-five thousand people really was . |
| 4 | Quickly Lisa jumped in , putting to him a question she had always wondered about . |
| 5 | Minter , had he but known it , was right as well as wrong : right that Harry was running short of cash , wrong if he believed that currently mattered to him a jot . |
| 6 | The spirit , wearing wolf skins and an eagle 's mask , had read to him a kind of autobiographical fragment . |
| 7 | He could accept rejection , but to be actively disliked was to him a kind of living death . |
| 8 | Davide ran his finger over the knubbled ear , and it began to seem to him a charm to bring good luck , prosperity , the ease he hoped to find , if only he could leave for America . |
| 9 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |
| 10 | I 'll leave you to talk to him a minute . |
| 11 | Oh talk to him a minute . |
| 12 | ‘ I talked to him a couple of hours ago and he said that as soon as things quietened down he 'd get as much down on paper as he could remember . |
| 13 | I got up to him a couple of times once he only |
| 14 | ‘ Dub Be Good ’ is to him a vindication of his belief in an eccentric mix of punk , politics , reggae , ragga , hip hop , pop and the most hardfaced sampling style since Mark ‘ the 45 ’ King first laid hands on an Akai S900 . |
| 15 | I outlined to him a scheme for an organisation that would provide the disabled with the cars they required in return for an assignment to that organisation of their mobility allowance . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 17 | So far as I am aware , Eliot was not a concert-goer , but chamber music in the home — which in his case meant somebody else 's home — and above all the last Quartets of Beethoven , were to him a source of more than aesthetic pleasure . |
| 18 | May I commend to him a visit to north Devon and ask him to remember Coutant 's of Ilfracombe and firms like High Temperature of South Molton , Hobart 's , CQC and others ? |
| 19 | Talked to him a week before he died . |
| 20 | Mafouz , a tiny , pale , Egyptian boy , had said to him a week or so ago , ‘ Sir — I am not allowed television . |
| 21 | It needed all the pride she possessed to turn to him a moment later , ashen-faced but in control . |
| 22 | Even her timidity seemed to him a sham . |
| 23 | A history lecturer , U Myo Min , brought to him a book that he had written about the subject . |
| 24 | This committee suggested to him a policy that included a tribunal to fix the labourers " wages . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 26 | It merely appeared to him a paradox worth someone 's attention : how a man such as Thorkel described could inspire what Thorkel undoubtedly felt for him . |
| 27 | Usually the priors became proctors for the king , paying over to him a farm ( or rent ) , but as these farms were based on a high assessment many houses or cells sold or leased their property in order to buy denization . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But the fact that he 's a born racer , I mean I know him quite well , I 've seen him around a lot , I would talk to him a lot , so would other colleagues here , every race since that decision , I think without trying , he persuaded himself , we were able to persuade him without trying too hard that maybe he should reconsider ; I think time did the rest . |