Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Rayer has given the selectors so little excuse to drop him , has been so sound in all aspects of play , that he has consigned possibly the most dangerous prong of the Welsh attack to the replacements ' bench . |
| 2 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 3 | In this instant , a stronger bit might help with the strong horse to stop him running through the rider 's hand . |
| 4 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 5 | " Do you think Mr Timothy 's asked that gypsy to marry him yet ? " |
| 6 | The idea that a minister should have a political associate to assist him is not new . |
| 7 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 8 | If the failed attempt to oust him from Wadham in 1654 was the work of stricter puritans who suspected him of reducing Christianity to morality , so in the 1660s his ‘ club for comprehension ’ evoked the censure of high churchmen . |
| 9 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 10 | Nkrumah announced another referendum to enable him to dismiss the judges and also to establish a one-party state . |
| 11 | But her screams still echoed in his ears , ringing out into the night , summoning all his enemies , the whole world , who only wanted this opportunity to hound him , to tear him . |
| 12 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 13 | Even though some expert clauses do not specifically reserve the right for the parties to make submissions or representations to the expert ( see 8.15 ) , it is unlikely that this right will be lost through its omission , because the expert will usually want to receive submissions or representations of some kind to help him understand the issue he has to determine . |
| 14 | The Brownies did n't know it , but he had asked Brown Owl to marry him . |
| 15 | May I visit the Hall this afternoon to meet him , do you think ? ’ |
| 16 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 17 | However , if the patient has learned to make steps safely , but still tends to overuse his normal side , the physiotherapist may supply him with a high stick to help him to balance better . |
| 18 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 19 | Our police are so busy trying to catch the culprits , but then I read in the Press last week of a young man causing £60,000 of damage by graffiti and getting off free because it would be a waste of public money to put him on probation . |
| 20 | Overall , I believe Stalin planned Kirov 's murder so that he could continue the purges , with a justifiable excuse to back him up . |
| 21 | Strangely , I had another opportunity to study him quite soon afterwards . |
| 22 | If she could then convince Rainald that it might be a few days before she was granted another opportunity to meet him , and if she could discover how many spies the Empress had in Winchester , the precious time gained might be used to save Edmund . |
| 23 | At a case status hearing on 17 August , the court appointed a public defender to represent him and then adjourned the proceedings until a further status hearing on 3 January 1991 , at which time a trial date would be set . |
| 24 | A world where the man with the voice was apparently attacking a woman much slighter and younger than himself — and , despite the victim 's blonde prettiness , none of the passers-by on the busy little London street was making the slightest attempt to stop him . |
| 25 | Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him . |
| 26 | DAVID BISHOP , the 31-year-old Wales rugby league scrum-half who is still in dispute with Hull Kingston Rovers , yesterday pleaded for a top club to buy him and help rescue his international career . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that these tapes and stories keep reappearing at regular intervals suggests that someone is behind this attempt to hurt him . |
| 28 | Yet Ellcock , an intelligent man with strong views on the game , graciously allowed the Daily Mail to photograph him ‘ celebrating ’ at home watching Sky TV as Wayne Larkins hit the winning run in the Jamaica Test when he probably felt like crying again because he was not at Sabina Park to share the moment . |
| 29 | Kim denied charges of inconsistency , and characterized the dispute as a further attempt to discredit him . |
| 30 | The exhibition not only demonstrated many old ideas , but also at least one new one — Mr Preshous ' original idea of hiring a light aeroplane to enable him to take aerial photographs of the route . |