Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And did this tempt him to doctor the evidence in the ways shown above ? |
| 2 | This leads him to see the growth of the wage-allowance scheme as a response to problems of unemployment and underemployment which , while they became more visible in years of high food prices , were inherent in social and economic changes taking place in the Speenhamland counties . |
| 3 | This helps him to secure the female from the advances of other males . |
| 4 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 5 | Main picture For luthier Arthur Robb playing the instrument is a vital part of producing it : this enables him to check the sound quality and make any necessary final adjustments . |
| 6 | Non-intervention did as much to allow him to win the peace as it had done to assist him to victory during the Civil War . |
| 7 | If Wigan youngster Grindley can produce one impressive lap of the Olympic Stadium in the Golden Gala meeting , selectors seem likely to pick him to run the event in the same arena in a fortnight 's time . |
| 8 | Supt Alan Saddler , of Darlington police , said if Mr Davidson was still not happy with the situation he was welcome visit him to talk the matter over . |
| 9 | These encouraged him to attend the parish church , where ‘ I was so overrun with the spirit of superstition that I adored all things ( both the High Place , Priest , Clerk , vestments , service and what else ) belonging to the Church . ’ |
| 10 | What is sure is that Field , with his access to the latest English pianos at an early age , at no time played the harpsichord , and this , perhaps , above all helped him to develop the use of the pedal , which he would often sustain through changes of harmony , for the sake of the colouring of the phrase . |
| 11 | And I think if , and I know it was agreed at group leaders meeting , that if we could find a way that Mr could be paid these erm , allowances , it would be important to allow him to pursue the work which is being done on that committee , and I would hope that we might all agree to the recommendation , and that is when he 's on the steering group , it 's attendance erm , full attendance and er travelling , but on the others , travelling and subsistence . |
| 12 | The taxpayer contended that he did not have full information available to enable him to complete the returns . |
| 13 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |