what a wonderful encouragement you've made!. Time passes by and man gets old and everything changes. If there is one thing that I realy want to make stay, it must be my energetic delivery, which I miss so much just like you all. Of course it is possible to place the 'to him' phrase before the object though your consultants may not have been familiar with the order of the words. You should be very careful, however, about the intention and efficiency of sentence making process. If you just talk about the probability of the word order, you will get nowhere with its infrequency. But, like you said, the arrangement is still possible if the object 'car' is qualified by rather long group of words placed behind it. The backward movement of the object is done only when it is badly necessary, which we cannot see in the given sentence since there is no post qualifier. Got it? Thank you for remembering me.