Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] him [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeper Eric Thorstvedt was outstanding but insists he does n't know if Spurs want him to stay . |
| 2 | The slightly bent legs enable him to spring into action immediately , whereas stiff-locked legs would first have to become unlocked before attacking . |
| 3 | If one quarter , in value , of the creditors request him to convene a meeting to appoint a new trustee , he must do so ( s 300(3) ) . |
| 4 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 5 | His parents want him to continue his navy career which was the cause of so much celebration a year ago . |
| 6 | The traveller , we now discover , is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach . |
| 7 | This flexibility allows the exporter to let the option lapse if the order falls through or if exchange rate movements allow him to deal more advantageously on the spot market . |
| 8 | According to Eadmer , it was a small incident which opened Anselm 's eyes to the true state of affairs , and made him realize that the king would in no circumstances allow him to take any action beyond the routine of his episcopal duties . |
| 9 | The nuptial pads on a male frog 's feet enable him to grip on to the females tightly when mating . |
| 10 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 11 | Mr Li is not an economist , but at least he recognises some of the imperfections of the policy his economists tell him to follow . |
| 12 | The negative claim insists that a judge may not appeal to the law 's warrant for his decision when he can not show that conventions force him to do what he does , because the ideal is corrupted by any suggestion that past political decisions can yield rights and duties other than those dictated by convention . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Above all that the electors want him to speak out and act boldly . |
| 15 | His awareness and exploitation of these rights enable him to achieve some success in making criticisms of the Czechoslovakian government . |
| 16 | He has consistently refused calls to military service because his religious beliefs forbid him to bear arms for a secular power or swear on oath of military allegiance . |
| 17 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 18 | This refers to what the man 's beliefs lead him to feel or do . |
| 19 | Australia 's generous rules allow him to revalue intangible assets like newspaper mastheads , without saying specifically how much each asset is worth . |
| 20 | He styled himself ‘ gentleman ’ and his publications show him to have been something of a virtuoso , interested in the state of agriculture , industry , and the national economy . |
| 21 | Philip Giles fell more than thirty feet onto a hillside while on holdiay in California but doctors expect him to make a full recovery . |
| 22 | But 35 per cent of all voters want him to do a deal with the Liberal Democrats , including a pledge for electoral reform . |
| 23 | ‘ Then will you men tell him to speak to the farm manager ? ’ said Bathsheba in a businesslike way , as she rode off . |
| 24 | He had been pushed into this bloody situation by the need to attract public sympathy , and yet had been stupid enough to let the manifest idiocy of his questioners drive him to make a most unsympathetic exhibition of himself . |
| 25 | Adorno 's criteria force him to see , for example , blue notes as ‘ distortions ’ , pseudo-individual embellishments of ‘ correct ’ pitches ; but blue notes may conceivably be part of a different pitch system with its own correctness . |