Example sentences of "to him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said Mr Morgan , contacted by radio , acknowledged the fighters belonged to him but said they acted without his orders or consent . |
| 2 | There was a core of hardness to him that prevented him from ever responding to her . |
| 3 | In other words , there was a side to him that worried her , because she could not understand it . |
| 4 | Ask , and it shall be given you ; seek , and ye shall find ; knock , and it shall be opened unto you ; For every one that asketh receiveth ; and he that seeketh findeth ; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened . |
| 5 | He that seeks , finds , to him that knocks it will be opened . |
| 6 | There is no easy answer , for the Spirit blows where he wills , and man can neither prescribe to him nor control him . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you wish to speak to him or see him ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If that 's Penry tell him I do n't want to speak to him or see him again . |
| 9 | Only in conversa only verbally , I have n't written to him and told him . |
| 10 | The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’ |
| 11 | For a moment she almost lied to him and told him he had brought her nothing . |
| 12 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 13 | I ran across to him and asked him where the hell Nicola was . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to know if you ever wrote to him and asked him to meet you . ’ |
| 15 | As on every night , she went up to him and kissed him on the lips . |
| 16 | Reaching out he pulled her to him and kissed her . |
| 17 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 18 | Whatever the risk , she must go to him and tell him to go back . |
| 19 | " Well tell him , girl , write to him and tell him " he exclaimed , his moustache bristling . |
| 20 | A sergeant appears from what a plate beside the door indicates is the dentist 's and I go up to him and tell him my name and that I 've been told to report my movements by Detective Inspector McDunn . |
| 21 | Sergeant Flavell sounds a little odd when I talk to him and tell him I 've been to Jersey for the day but I 'm on my way back to Edinburgh . |
| 22 | A pack leader saw the police in hot pursuit , called six Sturmabteilungen to him and led them into the stadium . |
| 23 | At 10 o'clock , as Jackson walked past Sauchiehall Street Station , a stranger spoke to him and led him away . |
| 24 | Listen well when he tells us what happened out there to him and respect him for what he has done , and honour him , for at least he has given each of us hope and proof that escape is possible . ’ |
| 25 | it 's not even worth having , talking to him and calls her . |
| 26 | She had entered into the union for her own reasons and she had taken her marriage vows with no thoughts other than to be a dutiful wife to him and to give him the happiness he deserved . |
| 27 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |
| 28 | After the funeral was over and the bereaved student returned to college , instead of going up to him and holding him — or even just politely commiserating with him — most students ignored him . |
| 29 | Once clear of the cloud , she had handed over the controls to him and taught him how to use the power and propeller pitch levers , how to bank the plane sharply , how to descend and climb with power and nose attitude . |
| 30 | But the farmer was kind to him and taught him a lot . |