Example sentences of "[verb] him [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His telegraph then went on " This afternoon General Robertson , Chief Administrative Officer AFHQ requested us to concur in a draft telegram to CG British Eighth Army authorising him to turn over 28,000 Cossacks ( see our 797 of October 16 , 1944 Midnight ) , including women and children to Marshal Tolbukhin , and further instructing him to turn over to Yugoslav Partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks . " |
| 2 | Amenhotep 's foreign diplomacy fostered political stability and international trade , enabling him to spend lavishly on domestic programmes that virtually rebuilt his empire stretching from Syria to the Sudan . |
| 3 | If , instead of persuading B to break his contract or causing him to do so by direct unlawful action against him , A brings about the breach of the contract between B and C by operating through a third party , X , A may still be liable to C , provided unlawful means are used . |
| 4 | He sees the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering as a career turning point which encouraged him to move back to local government work . |
| 5 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 6 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 8 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 9 | Thereafter financial stress obliged him to concentrate increasingly on short pieces . |