Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 2 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 3 | Often enough , restrictions are imposed in terrorem so as to discourage the more blatant activities of the outgoing partner but with the realisation that to hold him to the letter of the restraint might well be impracticable . |
| 4 | She made as if to poke him in the eye . |
| 5 | That was a case in which a district board took it upon themselves to pull down Mr. Cooper 's house , which they regarded as unsatisfactory , and to burden him with the cost of demolition without having first given him any type of notice . |
| 6 | And to treat him like the prodigal son was stupid . |
| 7 | If there is a point to saluting the winner of a race , it is ultimately to celebrate his good fortune in being given the natural attributes to do what he does ; and to thank him for the excitement of the spectacle he provides in devoting all his concentrated effort to showing he 's the best . |
| 8 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |
| 9 | With a hopeless head for finance and a desperate desire to befriend , Lear was only too willing to receive the attentions of John Gould , then in his mid-20s , and to initiate him into the secrets of the new technique of lithography and the art of ornithological illustration . |
| 10 | Your reward , as carer , is knowing that you have done your best to make the patient comfortable and happy , and to help him through the recovery process from his illness , however long it takes . |
| 11 | Unlike Alfonso , they chose to recognize his worth and to aid him in the war against the African Moors . |
| 12 | Also like Roosevelt , he attracted to Washington the brightest advisers he could find in the universities and the business community to fill places in the Cabinet and to surround him in the White House . |
| 13 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 14 | It aims to provide the student with a basic knowledge of the background to industry , to raise his general level of understanding of management processes , and to acquaint him with the tools and techniques of management . |
| 15 | The economist 's role in all this is essentially to make the policy-maker aware of these trade-offs and to advise him of the suitability of alternative policy tools for the achievement of objectives . |
| 16 | as if to remind him of the past , Controller Macdonald had a large video print of that moment on one wall of his office , which was in the basement . |
| 17 | Miriam or one of the older children of the garrison who could no longer play outside since the shrinking of the perimeter sat constantly at his bedside to fan him and to defend him against the mosquitoes . |
| 18 | But to tackle him on the basis of a fleeting reflection was tricky . |
| 19 | The other half of it lies in mobilising party and public support sufficiently strongly to leave Mrs Thatcher with no choice but to readmit him to the Cabinet if the Tories do return to office after the next election . |
| 20 | A grateful Niki coasts towards the finish , with Nelson , a lap down , riding pillion behind him , as though to push him across the line if he runs out of fuel . |