Example sentences of "[verb] him [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RVS was a master printer and an amateur pianist , the latter facility enabling him to help out a friend who was touring the Glasgow districts before the First World War with a projector and a bag full of short silent films . |
| 2 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 3 | Anderson himself , in scene five , remarks on the fact that language allows him to 'show off a bit " ( p. 63 ) but this comment occurs in the context of his longest turn , which is the most obvious example of him violating the maxim of manner . |
| 4 | Again Ted demurred , but the Parliamentary Party 's unease over the procedure for new leadership elections caused him to set up a review committee under Alec Home . |
| 5 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 6 | And get him to take out a party . ’ |
| 7 | In 1980 , Allan Wells took six months off work to enable him to train twice a day . |
| 8 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |
| 9 | Jacob , trim in his dinner-jacket , his dark eyes sparkling darker against the greying of his thick hair ; Leo , blond , relaxed , despite the effort it had cost him to put on a suit for the occasion . |
| 10 | But Palmer 's connection with the Union enabled him to build up a link with leaders of the advanced wing of the high church party . |
| 11 | Patrick 's identification of the body enabled him to write out a death certificate , which he handed to PC Bartholomew with a note of the other details . |
| 12 | She said that it did not matter whether or not he knew Alexander Atkins and instructed him to take down a message for him . |
| 13 | I 'll ask him to move along a bit , so he ai n't blocking the entrance . |
| 14 | Batty more or less played this 5 man in defence anyway with just the odd run forward , so maybe Wilko will just ask him to drop back a bit . |
| 15 | ‘ Intimidation is his game , and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 16 | Wright lost his infamous temper , picked up a booking and Monkou said : ‘ Intimidation is his game and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ |