Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 2 | It also allowed him to include a wide range of ‘ non-sacred ’ ideas and images which colour our lives from the cradle to the grave , not least those of loving and sexuality . |
| 3 | Brunel had also commissioned him to prepare an abortive scheme for him for a house at Watcombe in 1851 . |
| 4 | She also persuaded him to buy a hip-length jacket to help the suffering young lady keep warm if she was only sitting around nursing her ankle . |
| 5 | They ca n't really expect him to have a physical game this afternoon can they with David Speedy ? |
| 6 | The role gave Dustin plenty of scope to demonstrate his versatility , even allowing him to warble a few songs , including a vaudeville fish ditty , and to dance with beer cans strapped to the soles of his feet . |
| 7 | This interest ultimately led him to write a separate work on the topic , Die Mark . |
| 8 | After several rejections the war artists ' committee grudgingly asked him to paint an underground bomb store near Burton-on-Trent in 1942 . |