Example sentences of "urging him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She grappled with him as he pressed against her , pushing him away and urging him on . |
| 2 | The British Mountaineering Council have written to Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine urging him to consider buying Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms as a matter of ‘ necessity ’ . |
| 3 | The Independent has learnt that 1,800 American Roman Catholic nuns wrote last winter to Dr Runcie , urging him to defy the Pope over the ordination of women . |
| 4 | Pressure on the authorities not to send Mr Yang back to China grew on Tuesday when Amnesty International requested all its members telex John Major , the Foreign Secretary , urging him not to allow Mr Yang to be returned ‘ under any circumstances ’ . |
| 5 | And a new Dresden reform group , Initiative for Democratic Renewal , published an open letter to President Gorbachev , saying their leaders ' rigidity was destabilising the country , and urging him to press them to reform . |
| 6 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 7 | Yesterday Amnesty International sent an urgent letter to Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , urging him to reconsider Mr Osberk 's case . |
| 8 | Jack wrote a poem to Warnie , urging him not to look back out of the car window as it hurtled away , leaving their childhood behind them . |
| 9 | AS UNITED were booed off the pitch , a supporter leaned into the director 's box and tried to thrust a £5 note into the hands of Amer Midani , urging him to buy out the chairman , Martin Edwards . |
| 10 | This has often led him to tighten monetary policy while everybody around was urging him to ease . |
| 11 | But some of Mr Major 's close colleagues are urging him to use his mandate to start with a ‘ clean sheet of paper ’ when constructing his Cabinet . |
| 12 | Publicly , Mr Kinnock 's closest colleagues were urging him to remain in post . |
| 13 | Immediately , Jacques sent a copy of Watts ' letter to Green urging him to use its contents in discussion with Professor Barker to demonstrate that ‘ … his child is ailing and that seriously ’ . |
| 14 | Ehret senior possessed some artistic skill and he encouraged his son in both pursuits , urging him to travel . |
| 15 | Leopold had already written to Padre Martini urging him to send a letter of recommendation to the Elector and , since Munich was on Mozart 's route from Paris to Salzburg , he suggested that his son intimate to the Elector , or to a close associate , that he had been offered a post at Salzburg with a salary of 700 or 800 gulden ( the actual salary was only 450 ) in the hope that a more rewarding appointment might be offered . |
| 16 | None was as close as Ewan had been , but they did their best , bringing him the gossip , chattering , urging him to rise , to dress , to come out , come down and eat his dinner with the other folk . |
| 17 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |
| 18 | James would probably have been content to live quietly for a time but both Mary and Louis were insistent on immediate action and his chief remaining ally in the British Isles , Richard Talbot , Earl of Tyrconnel , Lord Deputy and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland , wrote urging him not to settle into comfortable inactivity in France when Ireland offered a kingdom of his own ‘ plentiful in all things for human life ’ . |
| 19 | His chief financial adviser , Simon Scher , a young Englishman who , after Cambridge , had trained at the Harvard Business School , was urging him to go public . |
| 20 | Daisy was sweating for him , and as he stumbled over the word ‘ pomegranates ’ , she could feel the collective good will of the painted ladies in the congregation urging him home like the favourite in the Grand National . |
| 21 | At the same time that Coleridge was discussing Hartley with Wordsworth he was also constantly urging him to write ‘ a philosophic poem ’ — ‘ No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher ’ . |
| 22 | He wrote enigmatically to Theo , urging him to come and meet Sien . |
| 23 | His friend van Rappard joined the fray , urging him to stay put , as he was doing . |
| 24 | He spurred forward to Moray 's side , urging him to bring him to the Regent , earls or none . |
| 25 | Vologsky fell into step beside him , the residue of his good mood still urging him to draw Kirov into it , share its benefits . |
| 26 | In May 1990 the story was circulated that Lowe 's increasingly bizarre behaviour had his friends and family urging him to seek help . |
| 27 | He wrote urging him to compose ‘ something short , easy and popular ’ which would be suitable for publication . |
| 28 | The Queen wrote from France urging him to give up his Anglican religion and accept Presbyterianism ; for to her as a Roman Catholic , the King remarked , all other religions appeared equally bad . |
| 29 | While on Hainan Island , he received a telegram from Beijing urging him to return to the capital . |
| 30 | He wrote twice to Anselm urging him to come quickly . |