Example sentences of "to he [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was soul-destroying to him but it gave him money for his wife and child . |
| 2 | And it occurred to him that it had almost always been like that : he the serious and thoughtful one , and the one he loved mostly careless and unconcerned . |
| 3 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 4 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 5 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 6 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 7 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 8 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 9 | I just had to tend to him when it got too much for someone who is not that involved in drugs . |
| 10 | The answer seems to he that it does not . |