Example sentences of "urging [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The four local MPs are urging them to sell the yard to the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 2 | Colin Liddle , of Wylam Road , Shield Row , Stanley , has contacted every county councillor urging them to reconsider the closure of Hustledown House in Stanley , home to 38 pensioners including his 81-year-old mother Florence . |
| 3 | With apparent benevolence Britain and America later sold off to many smaller countries reconditioned Enigmas at extremely cheap prices , urging them to adopt the system for their most secret traffic . |
| 4 | We have written further to the European Commissioner with a responsibility for transport , Mr Karl Van Miert and also to Commissioner Bruce Millan , urging them to accept the opinion of the Parliament . |
| 5 | Attlee , for his part , was equally strong in urging me to accept the majority opinion . |
| 6 | Union officials held an hour-long meeting with Mr Clarke at the Home Office , urging him to retain the pay formula set up after the bitter nine-week strike in 1977/78 . |
| 7 | The Independent has learnt that 1,800 American Roman Catholic nuns wrote last winter to Dr Runcie , urging him to defy the Pope over the ordination of women . |
| 8 | We will be urging him to withdraw the eligibility cuts , and to work with the legal profession , and the consumer organisations — to find less damaging ways of containing legal aid expenditure . ’ |
| 9 | A lonely place , though the porter caused some light comedy with his staggering and drunken curses , stopping every so often to wave Ranulf on , urging him to hold the lantern horn higher . |
| 10 | We recently joined with other organisations to write to the Secretary of State for the Environment urging him to change the rules set out in Minerals Planning Guidance Note 3 . |
| 11 | Boniface informed the archbishop about the holding of Frankish synods and sent him a copy of their decrees , particularly those of the council of 747 , urging him to reform the behaviour of bishops and condemning their adornment of dress and propensity for drunkenness . |
| 12 | When the army ousted the Rump in October 1659 he and a group of other naval officers then ashore wrote to Monck in Scotland , urging him to accept the coup , arguing that divisions would only play into the hands of the cavaliers . |
| 13 | This morning , he would n't take no for an answer , and , after urging her to consider the idea and bringing her out here as confidently as if the whole thing were quite settled in his mind , he was now taking the ground from under her feet by playing devil 's advocate . |
| 14 | He leaped into action , hurling towels at Mrs Morrison and urging her to have the sofa , now it was ruined , for whatever she liked . |