Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was living with his third wife , the ice goddess Veronica , in an LA mansion , surrounded by the gifts of a lifetime — a six-foot , hand-carved tiger given to him by Deng Xiaoping , a robe given to him by Elvis Presley . |
| 2 | Slightly confusingly named Utsly-Gtsly , this model is one of many Nakamura creations made up from sketches given to him by flat-proud clients with 200,000 yen to spend |
| 3 | If the shipowner has loaded the ship for his own account he must have a bill of lading which must state that the merchandise loaded on board belongs to him , that is to say , the quantity of packages or boxes , the marks and the name of the consignee . |
| 4 | Tim will be buried in the Everton shorts along with a signed Everton shirt given to him by the members of his favourite team . |
| 5 | Cora-Beth clung to him more tightly . |
| 6 | Pamela whispered to him . |
| 7 | ‘ Sarah read to him , drew for him , took him out in his buggy , even took the top off his yoghurt pots . ’ |
| 8 | The temperament we look for in our dog primarily depends on the work or function assigned to him . |
| 9 | Will the Secretary of State please ask the chairman of British Rail to report to him as a matter of urgency on the state of British Rail in Wales an on its financing ? |
| 10 | If the official receiver has a number of general proxies given to him , it is usual for him to vote with these proxies in accordance with the wishes of the majority as expressed at the meeting itself or by virtue of special proxies lodged . |
| 11 | He must not address the defendant in terms which suggest that the sample must be of one kind rather than the other unless and until the two possibilities have been explained to the defendant and a fair opportunity given to him to say , if he wishes , which he would prefer to give and why . |
| 12 | ( b. c. 1220 ) , Franciscan friar and theologian , was born c .1220 of unknown parentage and entered the Franciscan order in England by 1245 , when Fr Adam Marsh [ q.v. ] requested the loan of a philosophy text assigned to him ( Monumenta Franciscana , vol. i , ed . |
| 13 | The urge to do just that was almost overpowering , but he wanted Isabel to come to him willingly , not because he had taken advantage of her innocence . |
| 14 | Finn , sullen , vindictive , was forcing the killing blow to come to him . |
| 15 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 16 | Bellerophon ‘ slew the Amazons , women peers of men ’ and Heracles , the most popular of Greek heroes , found that the Ninth Labour assigned to him was to seize the girdle of the Amazon queen . |
| 17 | Omero knew exactly what she meant as he had broken a tooth as a result of eating rock given to him by visitors at Easter , and sometimes it really hurts . |
| 18 | Although the Wigmore chronicle refers to him as prior of St Victor , he seems to have had no experience of monastic government , and showed no talent when the need arose . |
| 19 | Cos Scott goes to him cos , we were talking about flipping biting other people 's nipples or something ! |
| 20 | Like Japan , the future belongs to him . |
| 21 | So Jesus asked the question : How can the Messiah be the son of David if David refers to him as Lord ? |
| 22 | On that occasion the member of parliament openly told the meeting of commissioners of supply that ‘ as he look't on the representing this shire to be hereditary in some measure in their family , soe he look't on the appointing the collector to be a consequentiall priviledge of it , and he would take ill any opposition given to him ’ . |
| 23 | Another power of the president given to him by the constitution ? |
| 24 | ‘ What a pity cirrhosis got to him so early ! ’ |
| 25 | The words to describe these difficult memories of confusion come to him magically — not without effort , not without searching for them , but with the assurance that each word is right , and calls forth its object exactly . |
| 26 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 27 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 28 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 29 | This Owen 's an able prince , no more like than any other prince of Christendom to do harm to a prisoner , or let harm come to him . ’ |
| 30 | Now Novell 's European offices report to him . |