Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] him [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally a tax-gathering patrol would seize a man who had sown a catch-crop in the fertile north and in effect hold him to ransom until he paid up : that would be a temporary recognition of force majeure rather than an acceptance of permanent obligation . |
| 2 | A ruler is bound by the good old law ; if he breaks it in any serious way , his subjects can rebel , and by formal process compel him to obey the law . |
| 3 | If the Opposition spokesman , the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) , has the guts and really cares about Ravenscraig , will my hon. Friend ask him to stand up now and commit a future Labour Government to keeping Ravenscraig open ? |
| 4 | The grammar and lexicon oblige him to do this . |
| 5 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 6 | Rolle 's gifts as a writer enable him to convey the flavour of a variety of levels of religious awareness and all his English writings are worth exploring with this in mind . |
| 7 | gives him an overdraft facility of so much money enable him to work when he moved , and they reneged on it ! |
| 8 | For the variety of medicines now available to the doctor allow him to relieve the pain , distress , or even agony which could prompt a consideration of euthanasia . |
| 9 | Did this hard-nosed Special Branch officer expect him to discuss that … |
| 10 | Now the decision was that the money promised by the dairy company could not be recovered by the Crown , for the reason that ( a ) any prerogative power to tax had been taken away by the Bill of Rights 1689 , and that ( b ) as for the statutory powers of DORA , the Regulations under which the food Controller was acting did not on their wording enable him to impose a tax . |
| 11 | Rosenberg 's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry , but his tone is different : more impersonal , informal , ironic , and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon [ qq.v . ] . |
| 12 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 13 | Photographs of that time show him to have been clean shaven and crisply dressed . |
| 14 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |
| 15 | On the one hand , two fans from a papermill implore him to become a dissident figurehead : on the other hand , two state policmen want him to sign a document denying authorship of the original article . |
| 16 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
| 17 | Only these little bits of bogus power enable him to think he is in control of what he sees as the correct father-son relationship . |
| 18 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 19 | Harry is supposed to be coming home to take up his inheritance of the family estate , but the emotional pressures of his family force him to escape instead to become a medical missionary . |
| 20 | Nor would his evidentiary interest require him to examine past doctrine , trying to chart its place in the law as a whole , in the obsessive way judges do . |