Example sentences of "[verb] him to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that I do n't trust him to only take one that 's all ! |
| 2 | He played a full season of grade cricket in Western Australia during our winter , without any recurrence of the back problems which limited him to under 40 overs in the Championship for us last summer . |
| 3 | A single 3–2–0 chub to legered maggot from the next occupied below the winner took Jeff Perrin ( Shakespeare ) into second and helped him to forth in the Kamasan Matchman of the Year table . |
| 4 | Yet far from leading him to abandon or modify his policies , opposition incited him to more drastic methods . |
| 5 | Dustin managed to get a part , but then the brittle Dexter , not known to suffer actors gladly , told him to kindly leave the stage . |
| 6 | Needless to say I got a little excited and told him to quietly shut the engine down and if he wanted to wash the coveralls tonight in gasoline to go about a hundred and fifty yards over there . |
| 7 | Do not expect him to always be amused , though ; he is a very powerful man . |
| 8 | Personally , I would expect him to still make the trip . |
| 9 | David ( under 48 kilo category ) held a full two-year unbeaten record until recently , when a fractured elbow caused him to narrowly lose the 1991 Junior British Championships , a title he won in 1990 . |
| 10 | Both Simon Draper and Ken Berry had been vehement in their opposition to Branson even contemplating rehiring Wilson , and advised him to now tear up the contract and be done with it . |
| 11 | Jones 's international commitments ( he departs for Australia 's three-Test tour of Sri Lanka in August ) will limit him to only four-fifths of the county season with Durham , but Graveney added : ‘ His attitude to this situation is brilliant . |
| 12 | It had been his reluctance to cry ‘ wolf ’ that had got him to where he stood now . |
| 13 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 14 | Tell him to fucking hurry . ’ |
| 15 | Tell him to just fuck . |
| 16 | We followed him to where two of his companions were hiding under a row of vines . |
| 17 | But back trouble has restricted him to just eight games this season . |
| 18 | And this season , injury has restricted him to just 10 appearances . |
| 19 | This then presents the entire period from May to mid June as a slippery slope down which Gloucester plunged , his attempts to achieve security committing him to progressively more desperate measures . |
| 20 | This then presents the entire period from May to mid June as a slippery slope down which Gloucester plunged , his attempts to achieve security committing him to progressively more desperate measures . |
| 21 | For Loeb , it had the unfortunate result of committing him to too narrow a view of the mechanisms responsible for animal orientation . |
| 22 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 23 | ‘ I kept asking him to just leave me a quote . |
| 24 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 25 | Yet if she voiced her objections it would only serve to alert him to how uneasy she felt . |
| 26 | But if the club suddenly asked him to strongly consider taking the Blackburn offer then even if he did n't he probably would never have felt the same again about playing for Leeds , ( ie , doubting about management 's loyalty to him , etc . ) |
| 27 | Which brought him to why he was here . |
| 28 | Joan 's unconscious encouragement of Bob 's selfishness may lead him to more extreme behaviour ( in psychoanalytic terms , her projection leaves him carrying a ‘ double dose ’ ) . |
| 29 | His 10,000-mile electoral odyssey , which started in Mrs Thatcher 's birthplace of Grantham and took him to more than 60 constituencies , finally brought him to Dulwich , just up the road from his predecessor 's Prime Ministerial bolthole . |
| 30 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |