Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] him [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You may want to instruct him to say each pair twice all the way through , without you having to ask for a repeat each time .
2 If at the time the issue arises the patient still has capacity to decide , they can not only explore the scope of his decision with the patient , but can seek to persuade him to alter that decision .
3 As for centre backs I 've no idea — ideally I 'd like to see him give half wit and Weatherall a good go along with Tinkler , Forrester and Sharp as I really ca n't see us winning the league after Saturdays shite performance .
4 His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her .
5 ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely .
6 Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night .
7 Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader .
8 His mother must have had him watched last night ; perhaps he was still being followed .
9 He knew that it was a stupid notion and that she , of all people , would n't have wanted him to think this way , but he could n't help it .
10 Such an analysis is compelling if counsel for B had , in what he perceived as the interests of his client , decided not to pursue any grounds beyond the certified question provided that the House would have allowed him to address those grounds had he raised them .
11 The offer , from ABC , came shortly after the last episode was screened and would have required him to make twenty-four programmes a year for a possible five years .
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