Example sentences of "to [pron] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he loses games to them he is more likely to accept their authority , resulting in a much better-behaved dog all-round . |
| 2 | According to them he did not kiss Jacob , but bit him on the neck ! |
| 3 | To them he is always ‘ Nixie ’ , the kind and the good . |
| 4 | To them he was the same rough dog , running into the room with wet paws to be disparaged . |
| 5 | Nurses living opposite said Roberts shouted to them he had served 10 months ' jail for a burglary he did not commit . |
| 6 | To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment . |
| 7 | If he went to them he would have to admit that he left her there . |
| 8 | But as he did he saw two hooded crows scutter along the cliff face and sneak down upon her , calling threateningly , and as she turned to them he was astonished to see that she moved clumsily , uncertainly , not as an adult eagle should . |
| 9 | With his back to them he jabbed a finger to the floor . |
| 10 | But that night , he summoned the British and American ambassadors and after talking to them he appointed as prime minister his chief of staff , General Gholamreza Azhari , a mild-mannered man who was absolutely opposed to use force . |
| 11 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 12 | As he comes up to them he says , ‘ Where 's John ? ’ |
| 13 | You know to them he said it would n't be matter if there was nothing . |
| 14 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 15 | To me he was battering his career , because , before that we all worked as a team . |
| 16 | In the great roles — his Tristan , his Otello — it seems to me he brings to the part a unique sense of musical phrasing . |
| 17 | To me he said , ‘ Well , young Cooper , I know you do n't drink alcohol , so you had better have a non-alcoholic drink . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose Michael was quite a superficial person but to me he represented excitement and it was a period I had to go through . |
| 19 | Joe Engelberger may seem ‘ a real fun guy ’ to John Bell , bursting with zest for life , but to me he is a typical example of technocratic ‘ pace-setters ’ , imbued with the virtues of dynamism , expertise and unlimited ambition . |
| 20 | To me he was James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson rolled into one . |
| 21 | Then leaning further over to me he whispered in my ear : ‘ Did you see that crowd of shit in the streets ? |
| 22 | ‘ I found the journalist but the day he was going to talk to me he was killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 23 | To me he 's the best . |
| 24 | ‘ If you keep talking to me he might think we have n't seen him , ’ Benny hissed out of the corner of her mouth . |
| 25 | On that first Broadway night I had stood in the wings where he was absent-mindedly fondling the breasts of his frizzy-haired admirer , and to me he had looked just like any other dirty old man ; but then , as the royal fanfare sounded , he had twitched his grey gown , given me a wink , and walked into the stage 's glare . |
| 26 | To me he is the most beautiful child in the world . |
| 27 | It seems to me he 's trying to play judge and jury . ’ |
| 28 | By the time he got to me he was n't ranting and raving , he just stared at me with mad eyes . ’ |
| 29 | Instead I tidied the spare room , glad again that I had been forced , through circumstances , to have him with me the night after his death , because to me he was n't Nigel one moment because he was breathing and not Nigel the next because he 'd stopped . |
| 30 | He shows nothing that suggests to me he should wear a Liverpool shirt . |