Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 2 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 3 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 4 | His first and continuing urge was to drive him towards crisis and clarity , which involved , one might almost say which meant , finding a podvig that would satisfy his idea of Stavrogin . |
| 5 | But very occasionally we used to get somebody who wanted to talk to us and had good reason not to talk to the Feds or Charlie , and the simplest thing was to slip him into Canada and cite the OldCommonwealth-Pals Act . |
| 6 | Because her only defence was to turn him against her , she realised with a pang of sorrow . |
| 7 | Your only hope is to use him as a shield against the rest of the gang as you break through their line . |
| 8 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 9 | Wordsworth received a ‘ good grounding ’ in the classics , but the object of the intensive mathematical training was to prepare him for success at Cambridge University . |
| 10 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |