Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROY KEANE last night revealed he will hold off Nottingham Forest 's attempts to tie him to a new long-term contract . |
| 2 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 3 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 4 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 5 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 6 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 7 | [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow . |
| 8 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 9 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 10 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 11 | Sacko , a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) official serving in the Central African Republic , had been Finance Minister for six months before resigning in August 1987 in protest at the unwillingness of Traoré 's government to support him in a drive against corruption [ see pp. 36085-86 ] . |
| 12 | Such was the excitement and focus on Maggie that in spite of Rose 's care to draw him into the conversation Moran began to feel out of it and grew bored . |
| 13 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 14 | Milton was developing a certain respect for the Colonel 's ability to get him off the main point of the interview . |
| 15 | Then the Soviet authorities bowed to pressure and allowed the fiancée of Sakharov 's stepson to join him in the United States . |
| 16 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 17 | It was the same when he walked ; he found that he was unsteady on his feet , and liked to have Nathan 's arm to help him into the carriage , as though it were a matter of ordinary courtesy from a younger man to an older . |
| 18 | She went into Jack 's office to find him on the phone . |