Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter had discovered that his five villages would not like him to have a working wife . |
| 2 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 3 | In our opinion his health will no longer enable him to sustain the heavy burdens inseparable from the office of Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Satan was never wronged nor despised in Heaven ; the exaltation of the son was meant for the good of all the angels but he was so stupid his pride would not allow him to tolerate the unintentional insult . |
| 5 | I desperately wanted him to see the right ‘ way to go ’ . |
| 6 | In the course of their many arguments , Amanda once asked him to consider the domestic condition of the Fergusson family , who lived together with strong bonds of affection , and declare whether they too were the consequence of chaos , hazard and malice . |
| 7 | ‘ This lady , ’ said Paviour , stepping aside to allow him to follow the mild gesture that indicated Charlotte , ‘ pulled you out . |
| 8 | My mother was always telling him to measure the right amount with the cap of the bottle , but it was n't his style . |
| 9 | It also allowed him to include a wide range of ‘ non-sacred ’ ideas and images which colour our lives from the cradle to the grave , not least those of loving and sexuality . |
| 10 | Brunel had also commissioned him to prepare an abortive scheme for him for a house at Watcombe in 1851 . |
| 11 | There was no way to teach a man to read the Bible — a predominant intention in much early education in literacy — which did not also enable him to read the radical press . |
| 12 | She also persuaded him to buy a hip-length jacket to help the suffering young lady keep warm if she was only sitting around nursing her ankle . |
| 13 | They ca n't really expect him to have a physical game this afternoon can they with David Speedy ? |
| 14 | She did n't want him to have a hurt heart that he hid with bitter repartee . |
| 15 | I listened closely to what he had to say , but I then pressed him to name the best-known avant-garde artists for me . |
| 16 | Topaz clawed Andrew 's back , silently begging him to satisfy the ravenous craving within her which was reaching unbearable proportions . |
| 17 | This interest ultimately led him to write a separate work on the topic , Die Mark . |
| 18 | After several rejections the war artists ' committee grudgingly asked him to paint an underground bomb store near Burton-on-Trent in 1942 . |
| 19 | In a sense Lecercle ( whose own name doubtless encouraged him to consider the surplus meanings language provides ) is sticking up for parole , the language as she is spoke ( or written ) . |
| 20 | When six chimed on the clock above the door , I reluctantly asked him to push the blind back in , and to lock up while I checked over the day 's takings . |
| 21 | ‘ The bottom line ’ , says one western ambassador , ‘ is that he is one of the few leaders on this continent who appears to care about his people and we therefore trust him to do the right thing . ’ |
| 22 | My husband was a native New Yorker , and I could never get him to leave the Big Apple even for a holiday . |