Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told that the government department , with general responsibility for arts policy , has no means of helping him to reclaim the bronzes from the Ariadne Galleries in New York . |
| 2 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 3 | At Mr Baker 's age there was little point and probably less chance of persuading him to change the habits of a lifetime . |
| 4 | And Hill recognises he owes both his famous and late dad and his predecessor at Williams , Nigel Mansell , thanks for their efforts in helping him to land the chance he now has . |
| 5 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 6 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 7 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 8 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 9 | Infuriated by what she called the actions of a wicked little sneak , Smallfry had forced him to eat every last crumb of the cake without allowing him to clean the dirt and animal saliva from its surface . |
| 10 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ He is more hip than any man I know , ’ says film executive Mark Canton , who helped to make Jack as rich as he is today , by persuading him to play The Joker in Batman . |
| 12 | Mary was outraged by these measures , and resisted Pole 's recall by forbidding him to leave the country , and refusing to receive either the papal nuncio bearing the letters of revocation or any replacement for the cardinal . |
| 13 | Many do not recognise the irony of liking the band because of their ordinariness and then venerating Gedge by asking him to sign the cover of a single . |