Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 2 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 3 | The society claims that there are ‘ cosmic masters ’ in the universe and that they have come ‘ to give priceless teachings to man to help him prepare for the New World and to bring a great millennium of peace ’ . |
| 4 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 5 | I loved to hear him talk about the old days . ’ |
| 6 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was at the first-night party of Come Blow Your Horn , ’ said Braden , ‘ and remember being completely fooled by his American accent in the play , so I was very surprised to hear him talking in an English accent afterwards . ’ |
| 8 | Something to keep him occupied through the odd thirty seconds of the week when he 's not actually reading some other report . |
| 9 | Among those who were reported to have declined to be considered was New York Governor Mario Cuomo , one of the party 's most charismatic figures , who had earlier resisted a powerful campaign to induce him to run for the presidential nomination . |
| 10 | We did what we could but , ideally , I 'd like to see him moved to a proper unit , specialising in orthopaedics . |
| 11 | It was 03.17 and I was just in time to see him climb into a waiting car and drive off . |
| 12 | The Irish selectors were keen to see him play in the inter-pro series in his bid for a place in the Irish side . |
| 13 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 14 | And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct . |
| 15 | He needs therapy and some rehabilitation to enable him to cope with the constant uncertainty of his life and the violent frustration his condition causes him . |
| 16 | The defender is often faced with a claim of exorbitant amount , an agent for the pursuer who is unprepared or unable to quantify the same properly , and a pursuer who believes that his accident will be sufficient to enable him to retire to a comfortable abode in the sun . |
| 17 | Jnana — relates to mystical or magical knowledge required by a spiritual teacher to enable him to deal with the mysterious powers of nature as well as the intuitive awareness of a single , all-including entity other than which nothing persists ( in simple terms , the Creator ) . |
| 18 | Chamlong Simaung , the popular and charismatic Governor of Bangkok and leader of the Palang Dharma , announced on Jan. 14 that he was resigning his post to allow him to stand in the forthcoming elections in Bangkok Constituency 2 , one of the country 's most fiercely contested seats . |
| 19 | He jogged every morning with lead weights slung on his chest , back and thighs to get him used to the extra poundage of the armour . |
| 20 | ‘ There is no rift between Liam Brady and myself , ’ said Grant , the youngest member of Celtic 's seven-man board , who last season survived an attempt by fellow directors to have him removed at a special general meeting . |
| 21 | Engine trouble on the first leg did n't manage to stop him coming in a creditable second . |
| 22 | Serafin knows now why Summerchild was so reluctant to let him see this place and so anxious to make him settle for the dingy remoteness of Northumberland Avenue . |
| 23 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 24 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 25 | From any of these positions I would be crazy to make him play with the left knee inflamed the way it is . ’ |
| 26 | She tried to picture him looking like a French version of Cobalt , for whom she felt no physical attraction at all , and then she tried to calculate whether , in that guise , he was not a more likely murderer . |