Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 2 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 3 | Yet oddly enough when Massine staged his Donald of the Burthens with the help of a Scottish expert to guide him through the traditional steps and figures it was not a success , possibly because too much reliance was placed . |
| 4 | Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach . |
| 5 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 6 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |
| 7 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 8 | Many believe that Mr Kinnock 's heart may have been cut out and stamped on but that it beats anew in Mr Brown , and for this reason alone the party leader is credited with wanting the 41-year old Scot to succeed him in the event of disaster . |
| 9 | He used a silver-topped cane to assist him to the dining-room . |
| 10 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 11 | And 47-year-old Peter , who models himself on rock legend Elvis Presley , reckons he has the perfect record to make him into an all-round star — Bhingi Bajee Boogy . |
| 12 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 13 | Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine ! |
| 14 | Nevertheless , this emphasis on the fact that Jesus was a real man , and the rejection of what was certainly a widespread tendency to picture him as a purely superhuman ( and rather unreal ) figure , were clearly necessary : here lies one side of what classical Christian teaching has always held . |
| 15 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 16 | He says it means a lot to me , ity 's a great honour to have him in a little town like this . |
| 17 | This hint of a potential for goodness in the hero helps give some human credibility to Helena 's otherwise folkloric determination to re-entrap him via the bed trick . |
| 18 | Andrew will be much missed by all the many who had the good fortune to count him as a colleague and a friend . |
| 19 | A Glasgow friend , Tony Sykes , a great fisherman , at least he kept telling everyone he was , persuaded me against my better judgment to join him for a day 's salmon fishing on the River Ayr at Mauchline . |
| 20 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 21 | The judge also ruled that medical staff could administer a painkilling sedative to assist him in the process . |
| 22 | Instead , desanctification meant a growing tendency to treat him as a politician " like the others " . |
| 23 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 24 | His laddish image led one colleague to describe him as the Nigel Kennedy of the National . |
| 25 | De Gaulle 's lucidity on this point was eventually justified by events , but not before the Americans had made a concerted effort to eliminate him as a political force . |
| 26 | Father-of-three Russell Telford , 29 , forced the pit-cage operator to let him into the lift . |
| 27 | any money to take him to a tribunal . |
| 28 | Tom Jones held his young hurdler Jackson Flint in enough esteem to enter him in a race at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival meeting even though he does not yet have a win to his credit . |
| 29 | The head of national television , Elemer Hankiss , initiated legal action in December to reverse Antall 's Dec. 9 decision to suspend him pending an investigation of charges of financial misconduct . |
| 30 | Mains was recalled for the solitary Test against Tom Grace 's Irishmen at Athletic Park , in which the All Blacks gained an undistinguished win , but Mains got a penalty goal and enough credit to keep him in the team for the great tour — South Africa , 1978 . |