Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 2 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 3 | And she was so hooked in to him that she sensed that changing of mood almost immediately , and the façade split open a little wider . |
| 4 | Whispers from the people downstairs floated up to him . |
| 5 | But I do think Tom 's animals have always meant more to him than people . |
| 6 | Consisting of off-the-shelf commercial equipment that anyone might buy , it included the Sony video camera that was still signed out to him at the time of his arrest by the FBI in 1990 on a trumped-up passport charge . |
| 7 | Lionel Luyt told me that John quickly tagged on to him when they met during those Johannesburg seasons , and was eager for discussions which went on , after performances , into the small hours . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The boy is taught about family , clan and tribal lands , and their boundaries are carefully pointed out to him . |
| 10 | Now openly tipped as a candidate to succeed Norman Lamont as the next Chancellor in a summer reshuffle , the bookies have also cottoned on to him as a possible future leader of the party and cut his odds from 33-1 to 16-1 . |
| 11 | Anyway , so I , I was getting a bit worried about it , and , I can , cos I was having these headaches , and I started talking to Phil and I , I had n't really said much to him about it . |
| 12 | It still had n't really filtered through to him until he was actually on the ground working , and he just really could n't cope with that . |
| 13 | Blackburn sent a written apology to the umpire in question and has since apologised personally to him . |
| 14 | The father , for his part , must make sure that these privileges are properly passed on to him by giving him a death-bed blessing . |
| 15 | He stopped , glanced at his master and then bounded back to him . |
| 16 | This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening . |
| 17 | The chaplain of the college was a pleasant gentleman , his teacher of classics was a worthy pedant , and neither meant much to him . |
| 18 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 19 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 20 | But Rufus admitted to himself that the beauties of nature and architecture had never meant much to him . |