Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] him [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 2 | A moment 's reflection would have helped him to see the folly , cruelty , and hypocrisy of trying to force someone to acknowledge this . |
| 3 | Evans-Pritchard , too , followed this style of research because no other would have enabled him to gain the insights that he wanted . |
| 4 | This may have led him to exaggerate the extent to which Labour Party organisation had been maintained during the war , while Conservative Party organisation had languished : |
| 5 | If only bluff King Hal had been around yesterday , I think the tribunal might have co-opted him to pronounce the sentence they 'd love to carry out on Lamb : ‘ Off with his head ! ’ . |
| 6 | This , he felt , would have allowed him to tolerate the disturbances better . |
| 7 | However , he was persuaded to stay in England when he considered that his poor state of health probably would not have allowed him to survive the hardship of a long sea voyage in those days . |
| 8 | Penry 's ethics would never have allowed him to reveal the reason for Melanie 's visit to his home . |