Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anwar asked Changez and me to wash the floor of the shop , thinking that perhaps I could successfully supervise him . |
| 2 | In other words , he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor . |
| 3 | I wish I could remember the name of the functionary who pronounced on the news that a union vote had gone 70/30 , at least three to one in favour : I would gladly lend him my copy . |
| 4 | The new decision does not affect the artist 's ownership of the work of art itself , but it does effectively strip him or her of control over how , when and where it may be reproduced . |
| 5 | She did so want him to kiss her . |
| 6 | Be careful , therefore , that you do n't merely make him feel worse about his spelling . |
| 7 | But the question would only anger him . |
| 8 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 9 | The one-armed general remained insistent though , supporting Monteith 's opinion that if Joseph be ‘ allowed to have his own way at this time , it will only make him more stubborn in the future ’ . |
| 10 | We could only make him as comfortable as possible under the conditions , and we still had to bomb Berlin ’ . |
| 11 | But since ( Rabbit believes ) Pooh will in fact believe that Rabbit believes what he says , this need n't make Rabbit say ‘ I believe there 's honey ’ : it need only make him say ‘ There 's honey ’ . |
| 12 | It had lain there all day , still unread , for he knew that just to look at it , just to scan its heavy headlines announcing further death and destruction would only make him sink deeper into the bog of doubt . |
| 13 | Killing him would only make him a martyr . |
| 14 | Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself . |
| 15 | ‘ William can be as stubborn as the devil when he chooses , and the sight of a soldier will only make him dig in his heels further . |
| 16 | Even so , I understand he negotiated a substantial increase : an initiative on which I can only congratulate him . |
| 17 | In the present climate of opinion they could only damage him . |
| 18 | Yet this did not necessarily make him ‘ an outsider in English society ’ , readily employed by Edward II against the magnates . |
| 19 | Even this kind of intervention in the productive process could not long survive him : the means of musical production were taken more and more into the hands of large commercial interests , while parody as a method retreated into informal niches in the fabric of working-class life . |
| 20 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 21 | My dear friend — if I may so describe him — the previous Foreign Secretary , who resigned from the right hon. Lady 's Government over Europe , was equally thrilled , although he did not express himself — he never does — in quite such colourful language . |
| 22 | But you better watch him , Mike . |
| 23 | ‘ Why do you suddenly bring him in ? ’ |
| 24 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 25 | Perhaps you 'd better give him a pop over hurdles tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | You better give him fiver . |
| 27 | Better give him some money . |
| 28 | when he gets , when daddy comes home you 'd better give him a big cuddle and ask him |
| 29 | In field after field the government was forced to change course , earning a reputation for dishonesty and lack of principle that , when allied to Lloyd George 's prior reputation , could only do him great damage . |
| 30 | But when he sent his ambassador to see if she were indeed as beautiful as men told , the Venetians would only show him the princess at nightfall , in an unlighted room . |