Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love and honour alike required him to choose the outcast . |
| 2 | ‘ This lady , ’ said Paviour , stepping aside to allow him to follow the mild gesture that indicated Charlotte , ‘ pulled you out . |
| 3 | Reason tells him he is mad to want to continue farming , but the desire to do so leads him to rationalise the decision as best he can . |
| 4 | I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’ |
| 5 | They did not want him to make the comparison himself . |
| 6 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 7 | Southwark Crown Court 's senior judge , Gerald Butler , QC , said recently enacted legislation did not allow him to take the man 's 30-year-old record into account . |
| 8 | I did n't want him to hit the driver because accuracy was the key to this hole , and I said , ‘ You 're not going to have it . ’ |
| 9 | I did n't want him to hear the reluctance in my voice , so I squeezed his hand again . |
| 10 | And it did n't help him to know the scholars found it equally obscure . |
| 11 | I take it from what you say that you do n't want him to see the child ? |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want him to take the ball off the back four and stroll around in areas where play might break down . |
| 13 | ‘ And I do n't want him to take the rap for something he did n't do . ’ |
| 14 | We do n't want him to get the wind , do we ? |
| 15 | Do n't expect him to do the same . |
| 16 | She wondered idly why Rose had not asked him to apply the sun-cream and then realised that he was not among the swimmers . |
| 17 | He could n't even put together a picture of her day any longer , because she had n't allowed him to see the Bloomsbury rooms where she lived , though he had mooned by them in his car often enough , at the starts of many nights doomed to reveries of longing and revenge . |
| 18 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 19 | There are numerous examples of the operative sense construed with to in British English as well : ( 112 ) I had never known him to pass the garden-gate before . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend will be aware that I have often urged him to follow the Basildon project with the Skelmersdale project . |