Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no arrangements for the Press to accompany him on his tour , journalists were told . |
| 2 | De Craon was sitting in a high-backed chair near the window , a small scroll of parchment on his lap , apparently waiting for the Prince to summon him to an audience . |
| 3 | I persuaded Chester to cash in his Trustees account after agreeing to pay five quid for the taxi to take him to the bank . |
| 4 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 5 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 6 | Gorbachev had apparently asked for the military to support him as Commander-in-Chief . |
| 7 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 8 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 9 | The president , meanwhile , stood high in the public opinion polls after the attempt to assassinate him at the end of March . |
| 10 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 11 | We were going to talk about his subject of the day to put him at ease , and then just come out with it — ‘ By the way I 've got a joke for you Dave … ’ |
| 12 | It would have been nice , however , if the band had informed Gannon of the decision to fire him before the rumours spread through the Mancunian underground . |
| 13 | None the less the king did summon the officers of the Exchequer to join him in Oxford ; Pye 's colleague , who was also his ‘ comptroller ’ and administrative rival , the clerk of the pells , obeyed this call . |
| 14 | Also , like the liquidator , the administrative receiver can compel those involved in the affairs of the company to provide him with information relating to the company 's affairs and is also obliged to report to the Secretary of State if he forms the opinion that the conduct of a director makes him unfit to act as a director of a company . |
| 15 | Brown 's unpredictability and his refusal to endorse Clinton led to attempts by senior members of the party to prevent him from addressing the convention . |
| 16 | It is one of the two arguments I will examine that are advanced on behalf of the doctor to justify him in overriding or disregarding the expressed view of his patient . |
| 17 | At one moment the boatswain Jack Allgood comes out of a berserk rage to realise that he , a warrant officer , has allowed his hatred of the captain to lead him into mutiny ; the points of physical detail enforce his emotional agony : |
| 18 | Changing the shape of the team to accomodate him with Chapman and Wallace was , I 'm sure , a contributory factor to the team loosing its way last season at the start of last season . |
| 19 | A passage in Lord Diplock 's speech is generally regarded as the classic exposition of the meaning of legal malice : " What is required on the part of the defamer to entitle him to the protection of the privilege is positive belief in the truth of what he published … |
| 20 | If he hangs badly towards home or the other horses , he may need a kick or a smart smack with the whip to remind him of his job . |
| 21 | Claudia battled with the urge to crown him with the coffee , only restraining herself by thinking of her plans . |
| 22 | That failing , there can be a conveyance between the husband and wife , to which the first mortgagee is a party , to release the husband from liability under the first mortgage and take a covenant to observe and perform the same from the wife who will also covenant with the husband to indemnify him in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 23 | Twice , when Meredith ordered ‘ Two steps stage left ’ and Geoffrey moved to the right , Meredith came bounding down the centre aisle shouting ‘ Left , left , ducky ’ and leapt onto the apron to seize him by the shoulders and shove him into place . |
| 24 | And it was seldom his tunes failed to draw the odd penny from a shopkeeper 's pocket or , indeed , a bottle from the publican to sustain him to the next village . |
| 25 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 26 | Often he would send for Cranmer in the night to reassure him in his religious doubts and difficulties . |
| 27 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
| 28 | The hospital would ring him in the morning to warn him of what they had discovered of Mrs Popple 's death upon doing the post-mortem . |
| 29 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 30 | They manhandled Mr Reagan to the side of the stage and pounced on his attacker , forcing him over the podium to check him for any possible weapons before dragging him away . |