Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | He used a silver-topped cane to assist him to the dining-room . |
| 9 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The judge also ruled that medical staff could administer a painkilling sedative to assist him in the process . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His laddish image led one colleague to describe him as the Nigel Kennedy of the National . |
| 17 | Father-of-three Russell Telford , 29 , forced the pit-cage operator to let him into the lift . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've enough evidence to convict him of the Englishman 's murder , anyway , ’ the marshal pointed out . |
| 20 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 21 | Before the album 's release will come a single , ‘ Your Loss My Gain ’ , that 's neither particularly immediate or commercial and so makes a surprising choice to re-establish him in the public domain . |
| 22 | Such information as the reconnaissance gleaned convinced Conrad that there was inadequate Russian strength to resist him to the north . |
| 23 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 24 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |