Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked him to take a fresh look at the situation , because my gut feeling is that the decision that 's been taken is not the right one . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 3 | Secondly , I urge him to make the best possible speed in this matter because for many of us it represents the most dreadful stain on our criminal justice system . |
| 4 | I tell him to ask the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | I urged him to have a few of the young daughters of the gentlefolk before he established the provisional government at the Smolny Institute . |
| 6 | ‘ Shall I tell him to wait a few minutes , Inspector ? |
| 7 | I invite him to read the Prime Minister 's response to the right hon. Member for Chesterfield , which was far and away the most interesting part of the debate — Amended text or not , it reveals the muddle to which the other 11 nations of Europe do not subscribe . |
| 8 | If the hon. Gentleman genuinely thinks that services that are contracted out are of lower quality than those done in house , I invite him to make the short journey between the London boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth . |
| 9 | It was n't easy , but I persuaded him to do the right thing . |
| 10 | When mid-table apathy sets in , I force him to undertake a rigorous training session which I , naturally , oversee . |
| 11 | Other considerations of a public character may be present in the mind of the Secretary of State which persuade him to take a different view from the judges . |
| 12 | At the very height of the paroxysm , he made a movement with his knee which caused him to give a great cry which she , lost in the abandon of the moment , construed as passion , but was in fact a loud , animal yelp of pain . |
| 13 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 14 | Polygnotos , it is clear from Pausanias 's description , took two important steps which allowed him to express the classical spirit without the constrictions of the archaic tradition . |
| 15 | Bubbling with enthusiasm , Fr Cunningham , 80 , said it was the opportunity to work with children which prompted him to accept the latest offer of as a ‘ first step to retirement ’ . |
| 16 | His first books were written while he was a correspondent for Time magazine , which assigned him to cover the Far East . |
| 17 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 18 | Lapworth was passionate in his search for truth and exactness in the solution of geological problems , and diplomatic in his presentation , gifts which enabled him to propose the accepted solution to a famous controversy . |
| 19 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 20 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |
| 21 | There is a wonderful misery that pervades Tennyson 's poetry which enables him to create an amazing selection of emotions . |
| 22 | But those who expected him to make a significant impact on the British championship were soon to be disappointed . |
| 23 | MIKE RAFTER has been the white knight for Bristol Saracens , the Gloucestershire Division Two club , who invited him to halt a rapid downhill slide two years ago . |
| 24 | During his years in London Rambush expanded his knowledge into the field of chemical processing , continuing his studies at Battersea Polytechnic under Professor J. W. Hinchley , who invited him to become a founding member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1922 . |
| 25 | For no earthly reason you caused him to believe a monstrous lie . " |
| 26 | She encouraged him to try a small amount of soft food and to take nourishing foods such as soups . |
| 27 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 28 | His future was saved by the Dutch medical instrument company , Docshop , who signed him to attack the 250 Euro series . |
| 29 | Aung San travelled separately from the others , stopping over in Delhi to confer with Nehru who warned him to examine the British proposal ‘ with particular care … and not to be caught by it as I was ’ . |
| 30 | However , he impressed Sir Clements Markham [ q.v. ] , who selected him to command the SY Morning in 1902 to be sent to the relief of the Discovery expedition of Robert Falcon Scott [ q.v . ] . |