Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 2 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 3 | Tony Adewumi , 53 , clocked up huge amounts of overtime , often putting in shifts of up to 14 hours to help him pay of debts , an industrial tribunal heard . |
| 4 | Wayne Thomas , 19 , appeared before magistrates on four occasions — but each time they agreed to defence applications to allow him bail . |
| 5 | The libel had arisen over letters written since late 1991 by another Syrian , Misbah Baki , to the Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sultan , alleging that Said had failed to keep earlier promises to lend him money . |
| 6 | In October , riding high after the August coup , he forced deputies to give him emergency powers to appoint the government and rule by decree for a year . |
| 7 | Charles , in the meantime , would invite people who he knew shared his enthusiasms to keep him company . |
| 8 | As soon as he had gained control , Sandys brought about another change in the Virginia Company 's way of running things ; he told the Company 's governor in the colony to have an assembly elected from among the colonists to give him advice and to act as the legislative body to pass any local laws needed inside the colony . |
| 9 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |
| 10 | Jane persuaded volunteers to give him food and attention . |
| 11 | In 1662 the English government allocated £2,000 to meet the costs of maintaining a Russian ambassador during his short stay in London ; and two decades later another , after much argument , forced his hosts to allow him £100 a week — twice as much as he had originally been offered . |
| 12 | Theresa , who does n't mind being called a whore but starts screaming if anyone calls her retarded , is the kind of character who seems to promise a fate worse than rape , but the greatest violence reside in Al , who tries to calm himself with images of lambs , only to have them open their mouths to show him teeth and worms . |
| 13 | His small son , age five , was hanging from a steel bar eight or ten feet above the ground while William 's , a year older , taunted him from a greater height and threatened to tread on his fingers to make him drop . |