Example sentences of "him [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years I was trying to get him to go part time but he always put it off . |
| 2 | ‘ I want him to go south immediately , to Godstowe . |
| 3 | ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell him to go fuck himself ! ’ |
| 6 | His real interests , however , increasingly came to lie in science and eventually his father paid for him to attend University College London , where he studied chemistry . |
| 7 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 8 | His research into the possible use of guerrillas led him to champion preparations for all types of irregular operations , although he could make little headway against the traditional thinking of those directing military operations . |
| 9 | The new provision differs from the old in one significant way , by altering the terminology in which the Act is couched from the senior police officer 's ‘ opinion ’ that he is unable to prevent the serious public disorder to ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the imposition of conditions will not enable him to preserve order . |
| 10 | HERBERT Blaize , a courtly politician of a bygone Caribbean era , believed God had chosen him to restore democracy to Grenada after 7,000 US troops invaded his island in 1983 to overthrow its marxist rulers . |
| 11 | It was an unfair advantage , though ; it made it harder for him to evade answering . |
| 12 | He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time . |
| 13 | I did n't ring him to borrow money , because he never has any to lend . |
| 14 | Moffat 's lawyer said that family trouble and a broken relationship had caused him to lose control . |
| 15 | YAHOO , a length and a half runner-up to Desert Orchid in last season 's Cheltenham Gold Cup , is being heavily backed to take his revenge in Boxing Day 's King George VI Chase at Kempton , and Coral 's yesterday cut him to 6-1 from 10-1 after laying him to lose £40,000 . |
| 16 | He must have then done some painting on Mr. Bellersis ' work as there are two more references to his colouring and finishing the colouring for Mr. Bellersis Also , when in London he used to visit his former teacher John Landseer and also mentioned going with him to see plates , ‘ and compositor printer at work ’ . |
| 17 | When he suffered a relapse , his parents sent him to see Nolan . |
| 18 | He told Theo that the act of drawing enabled him to see things differently . |
| 19 | The men parted to allow him to see Joe Hyde lying on the bed . |
| 20 | It was typical of him to see politics in ethical terms . |
| 21 | He challenged him to see God through his telescope . |
| 22 | Any threat to press freedom came , not from Goldsmith , but from the law which allowed him to sue distributors of libel-prone magazines . |
| 23 | In order to make the plaintiff 's task easier , the Act makes provision for him to sue own-branders , suppliers and importers in certain circumstances . |
| 24 | ‘ I told him to wear plastic but he said he could n't feel it ’ is reinforced by the line , ‘ ask them if they paid their child support last week ’ . |
| 25 | I ca n't argue with this , but I urge him to include driving lessons in his New Year 's resolutions . |
| 26 | These would have bound him to support majority decisions , even where these decisions were not accepted by the ILP Group . |
| 27 | The former prime minister , Mr Edward Heath , said he had not heard one convincing argument which would lead him to support legislation to change the whole legal system in order to bring these alleged war criminals to trial . |
| 28 | We 've him to thank f–r being married I suppose . ’ |
| 29 | When Wilfrid returned from his final visit to Rome Aethelred had abdicated but he summoned his nephew and appointed successor , Coenred , to meet Wilfrid and is said to have urged him to uphold Wilfrid 's cause ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) . |
| 30 | He did paint a number of portraits , but a painting of a piebald pony in the window of his studio was so lifelike that people started to ask him to paint animals . |