Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want him to reach the stage where he will be talked about for his golf and not for his petulance — we 've had enough . |
| 2 | They want him to have the best possible educational start , and they see children elsewhere , like Emma , getting a whole year 's schooling more than Sam . |
| 3 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 4 | And did this tempt him to doctor the evidence in the ways shown above ? |
| 5 | It was in Launceston that Gould took the opportunity of parting company with Gilbert , instructing him to await the arrival in Launceston of the Comet , which would carry him on to the Swan River in Western Australia . |
| 6 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 7 | General Manager W H Good , recognised the potential that George possessed and invited him to join the Company as an apprentice . |
| 8 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 9 | In 1923 R. W. Chapman [ q.v. ] invited him to revise the edition by G. Birkbeck Hill [ q.v. ] of James Boswell [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | In 1965 von Karajan spotted his talent and invited him to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at his Salzburg Festival . |
| 11 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 12 | On 12 October 1974 an industrial friend at Unilever invited him to share the company 's box at Covent Garden to see an opera . |
| 13 | Istvan Gati , as the Persian King , Orontes , is a sensational baritone with a clear , passionate tone , although his baritone Jozsef Moldvay sounds as though he has something stuck at the back o his mouth , a bit of dust maybe , which causes him to deliver the interpretation of his role in a somewhat unexpected manner . |
| 14 | We 'll need him to get the neural network back on line . ’ |
| 15 | A risk-averse individual would only be indifferent between transacting on the forward market and transacting on the future spot market if the terms he expects on the uncertain future spot market were sufficiently more favourable than the forward market to encourage him to take the risk . |
| 16 | Secondly , I urge him to make the best possible speed in this matter because for many of us it represents the most dreadful stain on our criminal justice system . |
| 17 | I urge him to read the newspapers that come through my door in Billericay . |
| 18 | I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all . |
| 19 | Her eyes fluttered open , only to find him screwing the cap to the bottle . |
| 20 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 21 | She opened the door and was surprised to find him holding the jodhpurs she had worn during her first ride . |
| 22 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 23 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 24 | Well I expect him to pay the insurance . |
| 25 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 26 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 27 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 28 | I should have let him shoot the boy . ’ |
| 29 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 30 | I should n't have let him have the key . |