Example sentences of "[subord] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This reasoned and ridiculous plea had no effect at all on Jem , other than to inflame him to further violence .
2 Last night Darlington police said a 14-year-old boy has been questioned about the fire and has been released pending a decision whether to charge him with any offence .
3 But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g .
4 So as to purge him of wicked curiosity ?
5 His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation .
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