Example sentences of "[prep] him [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been prudent of him to call in the police surgeon to confirm his estimate of the time of death . |
| 2 | She was too full of misery to finish and she brushed past him to go to the stairs , not able to face this at all . |
| 3 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 4 | Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch . |
| 5 | The then Leader of the House , John MacGregor ( who was today sitting on the platform with the great ones of the party , wearing a kilt to which , strictly speaking , he was not entitled ) had called upon him to help with the inquiries . |
| 6 | Mr Woolmer said : ‘ I felt Donald was overused in the World Cup when there was no need for him to bowl in the games against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe . ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , it is not our function to form a view in relation to any one of these appellants of the proper period for him to serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and then if we disagree with the Secretary of State 's tariff say that the Secretary of State was wrong and quash his decision . |
| 8 | He has to do what it is morally possible for him to do in the circumstances . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing in the provisions of this Article shall be taken to require a person to repeat any testing , examination or research which has been carried out otherwise than by him or at his instance , in so far as it is reasonable for him to rely on the results thereof for the purposes of those provisions . ’ |
| 10 | He also loved jazz though it was often difficult for him to get into the clubs because when he started he was only 15 . |
| 11 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 12 | ‘ Peter wanted to do anything he could to help catch Paul 's killers but it was not easy for him to help with the pictures . ’ |
| 13 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 14 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |