Example sentences of "[verb] to him [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then with great clarity and anguish he remembered the moment when Westerman had put his question about a moral lead from the press , and instead of answering at once the idea had come to him of leaning forward and judiciously stubbing out his cigarette . |
| 2 | The idea occurred to him from observing children sticking waste prints on to pieces of broken earthenware . |
| 3 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 4 | What was it Adams had once said to him apropos talking to Edna : it 's a gamble . |
| 5 | Shortly before the announcement of his resignation there were press reports that FBI agents had reviewed Gray 's 1990 financial disclosures and had sought records concerning payments made to him for speaking engagements . |
| 6 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 7 | This was the fate of deaf and dumb adults and children until towards the end of the sixteenth century , when Pedro Ponce de Leon , a Benedictine monk of the monastery of San Salvador near Burgos in Northern Spain , succeeded in teaching language to some deaf and dumb children , who had been entrusted to him for schooling by wealthy families , as deaf and dumb minors were legally incapable of inheriting their parents estates . |
| 8 | A ROMANIAN baby is to help repay the kindness shown to him by raising money for other children in need . |
| 9 | I 'm kind of partial to Teles , so I talked to him about making a Tele version . |
| 10 | She had n't spoken to him since leaving the harbour . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Here , an anonymous Company shrink checking out the efficiency of Spiderglass Southern , he was going to see the woman he 'd enslaved to him by playing God in her mind . |
| 13 | Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings , and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours , as he had done before Christmas . |
| 14 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 15 | The only possibility left to him of safeguarding his own position , it seems , is to deny not only that " Men exist " but " ( Ex ) x is human " too can be treated as genuine propositions . |
| 16 | I said to him about holding back not giving us our quota I said they can see we 're not doing now . . |
| 17 | Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming . |