Example sentences of "him [to-vb] some " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old .
3 Several leading Democrats reacted to this by claiming that , were Thornburgh to remain in office , it would raise the appearance of a conflict of interest and would allow him to circumvent some of the restrictions on the raising of electoral funds .
4 It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution .
5 As Byrd begins the long rehabilitation process which doctors hope will enable him to regain some movement , former team-mate Al Toon , one of the game 's top wide receivers , sits in retirement after being unable to shake off the effects of the ninth concussion in his eight-year career .
6 From February '97 onwards Helen is helping him to buy some newly needed textbooks .
7 The perceptive adult can help him to identify some of these properties and introduce the appropriate mathematical vocabulary .
8 His entire book is devoted to ways of improving the proportion of the ink that is devoted to conveying aspects of the data , and of erasing chartjunk ; this leads him to suggest some simplification of boxplots , for example .
9 He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production .
10 As it is , Elizabeth could perhaps encourage him to do some voluntary work or find part-time employment to redefine his identity and meet new people .
11 The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ .
12 ‘ Jozef wanted him to do some sort of favour and Mills refused . ’
13 I think he does look a more complete player at Scum , having Hughes with him to do some of his work and take the pressure also helps .
14 If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently .
15 Johnny think she wants him to do some
16 We frequently telephone asking him to illustrate some obscure or abstract concept .
17 Ask him to put some water in a bowl , and you can bring it into the scullery .
18 He shouted at me so I sat under the table and waited for him to put some food down .
19 This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament .
20 Whenever Layton had a promotional tour or appearance , a poetry reading or a workshop ( poetry-reading in Canada predated Ginsberg 's sensation with Howl that set in motion the ‘ beat-poetry ’ style , despite Scobie arguing it as an influence on Leonard 's background ) , he would take Leonard along , acquaint him with the nuts and bolts of the business and get him to read some of his own poetry .
21 ‘ I heard Alain this morning telling him to clear some dead timber .
22 10.28 : Persuaded P to get dressed and beat the clock — 3½ minutes , then back to coaxing him to finish some colouring .
23 ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum .
24 At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague .
25 Counselling also helped him to uncover some of the fears of loss which underlay his extreme jealousy .
26 Do try and get him to eat some decent food .
27 It comforted him to have some definite complaint against her ; everything else he felt was so vague and somehow shameful .
28 For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides .
29 Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) .
30 By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 .
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