Example sentences of "[verb] to him in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 3 | The Collector of Taxes in Glasgow in 1831 was one Blair , and the Loyal Reformers ' Gazette , a radical publication of the time , has a letter addressed to him in the following terms : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 6 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 7 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 8 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 9 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |
| 10 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 11 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 12 | I notice I refer to him in the past tense . |
| 13 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 14 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 15 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 16 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 17 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 18 | ‘ And I am not talking to him in the other room . ’ |
| 19 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |