Example sentences of "to him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 2 | If so , would you kindly forward to him the tiny little package ? |
| 3 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 4 | To him the divine character of Christianity was vindicated not by its reasonableness but by the very fact that it was the kind of thing no ordinary mind could have invented . |
| 5 | This incident brought home to him the great contrast between his father 's uprightness and the godlessness of those who sneered at him . |
| 6 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 7 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 8 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 9 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 10 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
| 11 | you said to him the other night . |
| 12 | I said to him the other day , well four weeks ago . |
| 13 | But like , Mr really really bad like maths teacher , he goes erm he goes to , she goes to him the other day oh you 're only picking on me cos I got ginger hair ! |
| 14 | I said to him the other morning I said do that again I said look , I 'll get you out of bed . |
| 15 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |
| 16 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 17 | It was to hound and hasten Leonard 's waking thoughts , eliminate any residual interest he may have possessed in mere intellectual commitment , and open to him the stark reality of life downtown . |
| 18 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 19 | Ever to him the greatest mirth , content |
| 20 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
| 21 | He was Otto I 's brother , and his biographer was not slow to apply to him the biblical phrase , ‘ a royal priesthood ’ . |
| 22 | To him the outside world , in particular Los Angeles and London , is humming with importance . |
| 23 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 24 | James had done training under Dr John Conolly at Hanwell , the Middlesex County pauper lunatic asylum , and to him the insane were the most pitiable of all human flotsam . |
| 25 | During his convalescence one of Larry 's colleagues , Professor Head , explains to him the basic principles of astrophysics , and it gradually becomes clear that the intra-personal death story is also a metaphoric transposition of the laws of astrophysics onto the dreaming or hallucinating mind . |
| 26 | I would hate to have to explain to him the true state of affairs . |
| 27 | If that is the case , I 'll talk to him the same way . |
| 28 | The CBI , the British Institute of Management and the Institute of Personnel Management have all put to him the same point about single-union agreements . |
| 29 | I 'll put it to him the next time he kidnaps me . |
| 30 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |