Example sentences of "to him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to him forcibly that he would have no objection at all to extending this romantic episode further . |
| 2 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |
| 3 | Count Raymond came to him privately and told him that Eleanor and his other sons were also plotting against him . |
| 4 | Do n't let your resentment build up any more — explain the financial situation to him clearly and calmly . |
| 5 | He believes that things are as they seem to Dr Serafin ; that he is putting up proposals which are as sound as his judgement and experience can make them , that he is withdrawing them in deference to Serafin 's objections , and that he will be forced to formulate alternative proposals which can not be known to him yet because they will take their rise from views Serafin has still not expressed . |
| 6 | ‘ We will be interviewing him about what happened but obviously he is in no fit state for us to talk to him yet and we will be waiting until he is well enough , ’ a police spokesman said . |
| 7 | Words his father had spoken to him shortly before he died came to him : ‘ Everything is in order , Lowell . |
| 8 | Derrida 's reply did not take the form of a reasoned rebuttal but of ninety pages of verbal clowning , which put Searle in his place by referring to him throughout as ‘ Sarl ’ , an acronym for ‘ Societé à responsabilité limitée ’ , which means a limited company . |
| 9 | Annabel Hogan was polite to him even if her maid was n't . |
| 10 | It was an instinctive reaching out to him even when he was a stranger . |
| 11 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 12 | going back to him just cos he 's got money , if she does n't love him any more and she ca n't live with him because of the relationship . |
| 13 | He lay back by the open window with his eyes closed and the warm breathless air came to him just as in another cooler season heat fanned from the grid lower down the wall . |
| 14 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
| 15 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 16 | Listen to him carefully and you will soon find that his scepticism is far from complete . |
| 17 | Randolph explained the circumstances to him carefully and received a ‘ Yes , Yes ’ at regular intervals . |
| 18 | What I can say to the honourable gentleman who I know always attends these European debates with great regularity , I 'll be only too glad to speak to him outside as well as the honourable gentleman to try and clarify these matters . |
| 19 | Even so it may be that regarding each individual , he is less likely successfully to follow right reasons which apply to him anyway if left to himself than if he always obeys the directives of a just government including those which are morally reprehensible . |
| 20 | This is set out as follows : ( 2 ) Where a person has entered into a contract after a misrepresentation has been made to him otherwise than fraudulently , and he would be entitled , by reason of the misrepresentation , to rescind the contract , then , if it is claimed , in any proceedings arising out of the contract , that the contract ought to be or has been rescinded , the court or arbitrator may declare the contract subsisting and award damages in lieu of rescission , if of the opinion that it would be equitable to do so , having regard to the nature of the misrepresentation and the loss that would be caused by it if the contract were upheld , as well as to the loss that rescission would cause to the other party . |
| 21 | The ‘ Honourable ’ had not impressed Mr Crump ; the younger brother of an Earl had not daunted him — he was aware , though , that the man talked to him easily and , equally , made him comfortable . |
| 22 | Sleep always came to him easily and quickly , very often unexpectedly , burying him when he was n't looking . |
| 23 | She had spoken more warmly to him tonight than she had ever done when she was unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she liked . |
| 24 | She cooked his favourite meals , kept the house neat and clean , obeyed him in all things and gave herself to him willingly and frequently . |
| 25 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 26 | Boyle refers to him again and again , ‘ one of the first and greatest experimental philosophers of our age ’ . |
| 27 | I 've explained the situation to him again and again , but he refuses to accept it . ’ |
| 28 | The two men waved to him again and one of them pointed to a table which was labouring under a monstrous number of bottles . |
| 29 | After he had finished his address she went up to him again and said , " Will you come back with me ? " |
| 30 | Then she was at his side , sobbing breathlessly , muttering to him again and again . |