Example sentences of "him [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain Eddie Owen is committed to the idea and is trying to raise , or have underwritten , the £500,000 which will allow him to confirm an order . |
| 2 | The land he rode was marshy , forcing him to weave an intricate course past the more treacherous patches . |
| 3 | A CONVICTED arsonist set fire to a top security hospital after staff allowed him to carry a lighter . |
| 4 | She got out , pulling up the hood of her waterproof , and helped him to carry the crates up the drive . |
| 5 | Recently he had had to have a catheter fitted for some medical problem and because of his absconding behaviour , the nurses had hit on a really original wheeze — to force him to carry the slowly filling urine bag in one of those four-milk crates one sometimes sees on doorsteps . |
| 6 | Essex , whose young players to watch are Mark Ilott and Nick Knight , defend their Britannic Assurance title hoping , as usual , that Neil Foster 's knees will allow him to remain the country 's best bowler . |
| 7 | It was all very well for Bragg to instruct him to go the rounds of prostitutes ' haunts , but he had precious little idea of how to go about it . |
| 8 | Someone — he ca n't remember who — had dared him to attend a service . |
| 9 | He was arrested , charged with possession of cocaine and only just missed serving a jail sentence when the court ordered him to attend a drugs rehabilitation centre . |
| 10 | These encouraged him to attend the parish church , where ‘ I was so overrun with the spirit of superstition that I adored all things ( both the High Place , Priest , Clerk , vestments , service and what else ) belonging to the Church . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , why do you think I asked him to attend the opening of the store ? ’ |
| 12 | She negotiated with Henry and the Residential Centre and fixed up for him to attend the scheme for three days a week . |
| 13 | Copies of the application must be sent to the official receiver in sufficient time to enable him to attend the hearing of the application . |
| 14 | The official receiver must give at least twenty-one days ' notice of the meeting to the bankrupt and may require him to attend the meeting ( r 6.84 ) |
| 15 | He did n't know why General Kopyion had asked him to attend the meeting with the Archon . |
| 16 | Until recently , the method by which Hébrard made the casts , enabling him to preserve the original waxes ( most of them owned today by Paul Mellon ) has been shrouded in mystery and the precise number of the edition has remained uncertain . |
| 17 | Gloucester was thus strengthening his grip on the duchy connection , but it was also in the interest of the crown for him to preserve the connection : an ambiguity emphasized by the fact that Ashton and Pilkington were royal as well as ducal servants . |
| 18 | Gloucester was thus strengthening his grip on the duchy connection , but it was also in the interest of the crown for him to preserve the connection : an ambiguity emphasized by the fact that Ashton and Pilkington were royal as well as ducal servants . |
| 19 | This would enable him to restore the foot to the proper position of function , and he would keep it like that by strapping it into a right-angle splint , with a kind of plate under the foot attached to splints up the calf . |
| 20 | If a creditor has levied and completed execution the debentureholders can not compel him to restore the money , nor , until the charge has crystallised , can he be restrained from levying execution . |
| 21 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 22 | ‘ Shall I tell him to wait a few minutes , Inspector ? |
| 23 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 24 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 25 | It also inspires him to realize the solo part with a weightiness of tone and concentration of line that has n't always been there to complement the natural clarity of his Brahms . |
| 26 | The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way . |
| 27 | Modigliani helped him with the language and , with surprising patience , taught him to wield a knife and fork , to use a pocket handkerchief and to mix in society . |
| 28 | Searching for fossils on Fitzwilliam 's estates at Castor in 1821 , he discovered a large tessellated Roman pavement ; this encouraged him to conduct a series of excavations , unusually systematic for their time , which continued until 1827 . |
| 29 | In 1965 von Karajan spotted his talent and invited him to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at his Salzburg Festival . |
| 30 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |