Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dušan 's ambition led him to aspire to the throne of Byzantium . |
| 2 | He says he was physically threatened in an attempt to get him to sign over the rights to three groups he represents to Sony . |
| 3 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT . |
| 9 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 10 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 11 | He explained that the description " dumb " had been omitted from the title to enable him to embrace within the scope of his review all deaf persons of distinction , whether they had continued dumb or had been enabled to articulate with any degree of facility . |
| 12 | The most muttered-against official is the director of campaigning , John Lacy , though no one in the organisation expects him to go before the election . |
| 13 | I am fairly constantly approached either by the honour-seeker or his wife to assist him to feature in the list . |
| 14 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 15 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 16 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 17 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
| 18 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 19 | He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 20 | A debtor has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay a debt if the debt is not immediately payable and : ( i ) the petitioning creditor has served on the debtor a statutory demand in the prescribed form requiring him to establish to the satisfaction of the creditor that there is a reasonable prospect that the debtor will be able to pay the debt when it falls due , ( ii ) at least three weeks have elapsed since the demand was served , and ( iii ) the demand has neither been complied with nor set aside ( s268(2) ) . |
| 21 | Though no world-beater in the trailblazing Thompson mould , he emerged as Britain 's number one decathlete last summer , taking the bronze medal at the World Student Games in Sheffield and claiming the sole British place for the World Championships in Tokyo , where a hamstring tear forced him to withdraw on the eve of competition . |
| 22 | Paragraph 8. 10 ( c ) of the PAC 's 1981 report , The Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General , stated that the present arrangements for the financial audit of nationalized industries should continue but that the C & AG should have access to the books and records of these bodies in order to enable him to report to the House of Commons ( paragraph 4.16 — 4.19 ) . |
| 23 | But a prodigious memory enabled him to retain to the end of his life a total recall , whether of a text of scripture or a line of the Iliad or a passage in Plato 's Dialogues . |
| 24 | With Waqar on Pakistan 's tour of England , Bryson will open the bowling with Martin Bicknell for whom this is an important summer after a winter operation on his left shoulder forced him to withdraw from the England A tour . |
| 25 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 26 | Before he left , the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline asked him to report on the treatment of convicts in Van Dieman 's Land . |
| 27 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 28 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 29 | Mike Atherton , too , came quietly back , and Tim Munton got his first Test cap , DeFreitas 's groin injury forcing him to withdraw from the squad . |
| 30 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |