Example sentences of "him [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how he tried , he could not judge exactly when to empty the pot before it became too heavy for him to carry all the way to the bathroom . |
| 2 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She dismissed Frankie with a withering stare that warned him to remain silent . |
| 5 | The bond of brotherhood wishes him to go far but the bitter reality of family relationships cracked by circumstance makes him determined to see his own brother sink . |
| 6 | ‘ Andy is in good shape and I 'm expecting him to go all the way this year ’ . |
| 7 | But for him to go self-employed will cost him more money than doing it on the bl black market . |
| 8 | Tell him to wait two minutes , that 's all . ’ |
| 9 | Physics realised 67 per cent ; History a promising 77 per cent ; and Mathematics was strongest of all , with an average of 77 per cent over three subjects : algebra I and II at 72 per cent and 80 per cent , geometry at 86 per cent and trigonometry at 70 per cent ; ( he admitted to us that he had opted for the latter at school , because it enabled him to evade Latin ! ) . |
| 10 | Do you have confidence in him to conduct this operation ? |
| 11 | It is also clear that Castro 's overriding concern with the security , both military and economic , of his revolution obliged him to conduct domestic policy with one eye on Moscow . |
| 12 | I do n't want him to lose all sense of proportion ; we must make a five . |
| 13 | The Kimbell 's hefty endowment freed Pillsbury from the chore of fundraising and enabled him to mount several important scholarly exhibitions that might not have found successful venues elsewhere ( such as the Jacopo Bassano exhibition , scheduled for January-April 1993 ) and which still attracted numerous art lovers to Fort Worth . |
| 14 | James I did , on the specious excuse of the ransom due to England for his release ; James V blackmailed the papacy into allowing him to extort vast amounts of taxation from the church . |
| 15 | Tong ordered the pilot to circle Ho Chi Minh City to allow him to unload anti-communist leaflets over the city . |
| 16 | A letter written to Bush in early October by a group of 53 US senators , urging him to suspend economic assistance until the restoration of representative government in Pakistan , led an official Pakistani government spokesman on Oct. 22 to describe the senators as " a group opposed to the national interests of Pakistan " . |
| 17 | It hurt him to see such changes in her . |
| 18 | At one point Dr. Goldsmith was informed that ‘ this committee definitely order him to see all persons who apply for admission to the House before they are admitted , in accordance with the requirements of the local government board ’ . |
| 19 | This led him to see that , that only one thing which can begin to come to the rescue of human beings in this situation , and that is universal love , and on that basis he saw , almost instantaneously , that war , that violence , that coldness in personal relations even , are morally intolerable . |
| 20 | She begged him to see this new doctor who , she said , was supposed to be very good , very sympathetic . |
| 21 | ‘ I certainly expect him to see this season out . |
| 22 | Cam is denied the colour and glamour of Barbados as he is kept at work on a tally of the cargo as it is landed : later , a talk with the captain helps him to see this and other causes for resentment in a different light . |
| 23 | Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer . |
| 24 | This global vision allows him to see foreign artists through Indian eyes and vice versa . |
| 25 | Wilson appointed Dick Crossman Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science , and encouraged him to spearhead some 40 conferences , up and down the country , to encourage an exchange of ideas . |
| 26 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 27 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 28 | All they wanted was for him to sit still as a stone — to be a piece of scenery , a decoration like one of the stone angels he had watched the Mason carve , up in the roofs of churches . |
| 29 | On April 30 , 1989 , Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah announced a Cabinet reshuffle after pressure from the central government forced him to include certain Congress ( I ) leaders in his Jammu and Kashmir National Conference ( JKNC-Farooq ) and Congress ( I ) adminstration , increasing the number of Cabinet members from 19 to 30 . |
| 30 | As dawn breaks , she returns to her grave leaving him to mourn alone . |