Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He built up a large practice , relying especially on ‘ native ’ clients , and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way , even if he did not save any considerable fortune . |
| 2 | ( 143 ) Something of this can be learned from " The Way to the Churchyard " ( 1901 ) , an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure . |
| 3 | Colberg galled him most — the officer 's gentlemanly aplomb helping him to swim like an eel under and between the weapons of a thousand angry people . |
| 4 | However , as Akiskal has no data to enable him to elaborate on the processes involved or the interaction of the contributing factors , his model does not yet have any practical value . |
| 5 | Dušan 's ambition led him to aspire to the throne of Byzantium . |
| 6 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 7 | The MPs , leaders of Britain 's cross-party peace group New Consensus , wrote to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams challenging him to appeal to the IRA to halt its campaign of violence . |
| 8 | He — far less usually she — is an inadequate individual whose lack of sexual capability leads him to rely on an activity which affords sexual pleasure with minimal active participation . |
| 9 | Once , the script required him to jump through a plate-glass window . |
| 10 | He says he was physically threatened in an attempt to get him to sign over the rights to three groups he represents to Sony . |
| 11 | Mr Notice , 32 , of Welling , Kent , undefeated before detached retinas forced him to retire from the ring , appeared before a special magistrates ' court in Reigate , Surrey . |
| 12 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 13 | Among those who were reported to have declined to be considered was New York Governor Mario Cuomo , one of the party 's most charismatic figures , who had earlier resisted a powerful campaign to induce him to run for the presidential nomination . |
| 14 | But the quick-thinking cabbie , who picked up the woman from a pub in Exeter , Devon , alerted a cashier when the hijacker ordered him to stop at a motorway service station for cigarettes . |
| 15 | To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain . |
| 16 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 17 | He needs therapy and some rehabilitation to enable him to cope with the constant uncertainty of his life and the violent frustration his condition causes him . |
| 18 | Jnana — relates to mystical or magical knowledge required by a spiritual teacher to enable him to deal with the mysterious powers of nature as well as the intuitive awareness of a single , all-including entity other than which nothing persists ( in simple terms , the Creator ) . |
| 19 | While on Hainan Island , he received a telegram from Beijing urging him to return to the capital . |
| 20 | ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) . |
| 21 | Chamlong Simaung , the popular and charismatic Governor of Bangkok and leader of the Palang Dharma , announced on Jan. 14 that he was resigning his post to allow him to stand in the forthcoming elections in Bangkok Constituency 2 , one of the country 's most fiercely contested seats . |
| 22 | But the university authorities agreed to rearrange an examination to allow him to play in a Varsity rugby match at Twickenham . |
| 23 | His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT . |
| 24 | However , where any person holds proxies requiring him to vote for the appointment of himself as trustee , he may use those proxies and vote accordingly ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 25 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
| 26 | His experiments with cement making led him to apply for a patent which was granted in June 1824 — no. 5,022 entitled ‘ An Improvement in the Modes of Producing an Artificial Stone ’ — the first such patent to be granted . |
| 27 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 28 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 29 | He explained that the description " dumb " had been omitted from the title to enable him to embrace within the scope of his review all deaf persons of distinction , whether they had continued dumb or had been enabled to articulate with any degree of facility . |
| 30 | Rose begged him to think of a plan , and the doctor thought hard for a few minutes , frowning fiercely . |