Example sentences of "be [verb] to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 2 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 3 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 4 | And because this technique will have been explained to him during the early part of the consultation , he will find it quite simple to do . |
| 5 | ‘ Peter keeps uttering things over the years saying copyright has been given to him , that there was a letter , a document , but they 've never been produced . ’ |
| 6 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 7 | He claimed he had not signed the document properly because , it having been given to him by a ‘ gentleman ’ , he was too nervous to do so . |
| 8 | It had been given to him , the devil claimed . ’ |
| 9 | been given to him at baptism ( Luke 3:22 ) ; |
| 10 | It was here that items of the Emperor 's clothing and the superb diamond necklace which had been given to him by the Princess Borghese [ his sister , Pauline ] as well as the Landau which had escaped the Moscow disaster in 1813 ( sic ) were taken . ’ |
| 11 | First , where an application for an injunction is made ex parte and the defendant claims , or in the opinion of the court would be likely to claim , that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall not grant the injunction unless satisfied that all steps which in the circumstances were reasonable have been taken with a view to securing that notice of the application and an opportunity of being heard with respect to the application have been given to him . |
| 12 | Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix implied the document had been given to him by a friend . |
| 13 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 14 | The pupil knows that all the information required has been given to him . |
| 15 | Full instructions and documentation have been given to him . |
| 16 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
| 17 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 18 | The fundamental rationale underlying the law of confidence is that it can prevent a person divulging information which has been given to him in confidence , on an express or implicit understanding that the information should not be disclosed to others or otherwise used by the recipient of the information . |
| 19 | Even though he had accepted general responsibility for his company 's operations , and would probably have agreed to print the books had the decision been referred to him , he could not be convicted unless he had been given specific notice of the offensive material . |
| 20 | All major decisions , either on the international diplomatic front or on military strategy inside Cambodia , are referred to him . |
| 21 | With my help , he makes his way up the steep stairwell to the bedroom , though the covers are slacken to him and he has no hope of getting beneath them . |
| 22 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 23 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 24 | reactive kind of person , in which he things are happening to him , like for instance he 's quite famous because of the war . |
| 25 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | The young male thereafter protects very young sexually immature females so that they are attracted to him and form a close relationship . |
| 27 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 28 | Moreover , no theft of that sort had been reported to him , which it certainly would have been ; or rather , it would have been reported to Canon Wheeler . |
| 29 | Then as we shall see ( from Col. 3:22–4:1 ) , he is Lord of the working environment , the true basis of all working relationships for those who are committed to him . |
| 30 | We believe in Jesus the only Son of God ; we are committed to Him , unique in Who He is , unique in the authority that He exercises , unique in the life that He brings . |