Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exiled Aristide held a meeting in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Dec. 29 with the mayor of the capital , Port-au-Prince , Evans Paul , and six Haitian parliamentarians to discuss a new effort at national reconciliation in order to restore him to office . |
| 2 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 3 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 4 | God had given his Spirit to his anointed king in order to equip him for his leadership of the people . |
| 5 | For example , if his son was suffering from rabies , Gandhi would consider it his duty to take his son 's life in order to relieve him of his agony . |
| 6 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 7 | Dealers at Harvard Securities found it amusing to ring up a client at 8.20 am. and to interrupt his shaving , breakfasting , or love-making in order to press him into buying stock . |