Example sentences of "to him [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was set upon by a police officer who simply wanted to speak to him but had no right in law and the appellant had the right to resist him , ’ said Mr Macdonald . |
| 2 | When Florey came to the chair of pathology at Sheffield a year or two later , Paine mentioned the matter to him but aroused no obvious interest . |
| 3 | Those who would like to check the validity of this view can see his portrait in the church at Arona or , more spectacularly , visit the colossal statue to him that stands a little to the north of the town . |
| 4 | You should have said , the tap 's nowt to do with us it belongs to him that has the garage ! |
| 5 | Indeed , he even had a buccaneering moment when it seemed to him that to have a choc-bar himself would do the trick of making him exactly like her . |
| 6 | The idea of marking the site of Liddell 's grave at Weifang in China , and establishing the Foundation came to him while researching a book on Liddell . |
| 7 | If you want to cheer him up , write to him or kiss the chap , the male frog ( 22 ) awaits your letter . |
| 8 | And he looked away at the crowd so near to him and felt a stab of real fear . |
| 9 | She crouched next to him and summoned the courage to peer over the end of the girder . |
| 10 | The young male thereafter protects very young sexually immature females so that they are attracted to him and form a close relationship . |
| 11 | Paul drove ; Agnes sat next to him and absorbed the incessant movement of traffic , the blinking of the lights , the pointless agitation of a metropolitan night . |
| 12 | Jessica , still in her shirt , moved to him and undid the buttons down his chest . |
| 13 | Elinor turned to him and laid a hand on his head . |
| 14 | A reporter 's interest may be stimulated by attending an event , and you will have the chance to talk to him and gain a feel for his interest and views . |
| 15 | Until then , he had been sure of his memories , certain that he could not have forgotten his parents and everything that had happened to him and reinvented the whole of his life before he woke in the attic . |
| 16 | She handed the receiver to him and left the room without a word , closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 17 | The sword became embedded in the wood of the handrail , and while his attacker was struggling to free it , Alexei stepped up to him and forced the trooper 's sword through the protecting mantle of a leather coat and into the flesh beneath . |
| 18 | He put the opened bottle down next to him and smelled the top . |
| 19 | Meredith abruptly stopped confiding her emotions to him and nibbled the doughnut forlornly . |
| 20 | Jacob Brailey was standing by the wagon and when he saw Seb he called to him and thrust a tankard of ale into his hand , saying , ‘ Here , boy . |
| 21 | She clung to him and laughed a little through her sobs , and he said : ‘ We shall float away on a tide of your tears if you 're not careful . |
| 22 | The first Frear knew of his presence was when Devlin slid on the stool next to him and ordered a beer . |
| 23 | Seb had hoped that rejection by her family and her people would make her turn to him and accept a gorgio way of life . |
| 24 | In the end it was David who spoke first , drawing her even closer to him and pulling the duvet round them both . |
| 25 | If you strolled up to him and started a conversation — on anything — he was anecdotal , pleasant and often revealing . |
| 26 | Harvey sat opposite to him and refused a cigarette . |
| 27 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 28 | She went to him and thrust the towel at him . |
| 29 | Mum went over to him and delivered a hard slap then ordered him off to bed . |
| 30 | Miss D'Arcy came across to him and put a hand on his shoulder with proprietorial affection . |