Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , adds Damon , he does n't need an agent to find him scripts , because he 's planning to write his own . |
| 2 | ( " Is groundsel nice , mother ? " ) and Hazel , touched to think that he must be dreaming of old days , rolled over on his side to give him room to settle again . |
| 3 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 4 | Of course , she should have somehow found the nerve to divorce him ages ago . |
| 5 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 6 | ‘ The powers that be in MI5 , by the way , believed enough in Mills being a KGB agent to offer him immunity from prosecution in exchange for confession and cooperation . |
| 7 | Quite innocently , Meik made his temper worse by returning to Holmsly Manor to bid him farewell . |
| 8 | I put my hand round the child 's neck to stop him shouting . |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , ’ Theda added , her eyes flashing , ‘ after the way he spoke to me , I am not of a mind to hand him gifts . ’ |
| 10 | Eventually , the passenger felt confident enough of his new friend in the driving seat to tell him jokes about the regime , culminating in obscene calumnies of Elena Ceauşescu . |
| 11 | She had heard from Mrs Crick that Mr Clare had spoken of marrying a country girl to help him farm , milk cows and reap corn . |
| 12 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 13 | Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company . |
| 14 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 15 | Tony Adewumi , 53 , clocked up huge amounts of overtime , often putting in shifts of up to 14 hours to help him pay of debts , an industrial tribunal heard . |
| 16 | It took Edwards 's warrant card , two library tickets , a pay-slip and a snapshot of himself and his fiancee on the beach at Scarborough to win him admittance . |
| 17 | It 's not your place to give him orders . ’ |
| 18 | Walter ‘ Terry ’ Smith , 36 , of Cowgate , Edinburgh , had been freed from jail to give him time to get fresh evidence to prove his innocence . |
| 19 | Wayne Thomas , 19 , appeared before magistrates on four occasions — but each time they agreed to defence applications to allow him bail . |
| 20 | President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo , 84 , declared on Feb. 27 that the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , which he had formed in 1964 , should elect a new leader to allow him time for other commitments . |
| 21 | The libel had arisen over letters written since late 1991 by another Syrian , Misbah Baki , to the Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sultan , alleging that Said had failed to keep earlier promises to lend him money . |
| 22 | In October , riding high after the August coup , he forced deputies to give him emergency powers to appoint the government and rule by decree for a year . |
| 23 | ‘ You then looked round in shock to see him fall . |
| 24 | He may take samples and can require any person to give him information relevant to his examination or investigation , to answer questions and to sign a declaration of the truth of the answers . |
| 25 | He chewed his way through a large and over-greasy midday meal , drank more beer than he ought to have done , took some laudanum with his brandy and water to give him sleep and felt his brain ripped open by a nightmare which wolfed down his mind in the open bleeding mouths of women . |
| 26 | But out of pity for Bouchard 's poverty , Geoffrey prevailed on the abbot to allow him possession of the mill for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | STRIKE IT RICH IAN RUSH slots home his fourth goal against Limassol last night to make him Anfield 's European goal king . |
| 28 | Charles , in the meantime , would invite people who he knew shared his enthusiasms to keep him company . |
| 29 | And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much . |
| 30 | Lucky old Shelley — the first woman to meet him face to face . ’ |