Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 2 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 3 | It was n't as though she 'd expected him to wear a City suit . |
| 4 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 5 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 6 | She had expected him to get a water-taxi , but he turned right and walked along the fondamenta , matching his stride to her slower pace . |
| 7 | No one had expected him to survive a massive cerebral haemorrhage |
| 8 | ‘ You would n't have expected him to become a writer ? ’ |
| 9 | The Colonel had trusted him to rid the Chairman of the darts of the writer with the poisoned pen . |
| 10 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , it was his high principles that had obliged him to reject the daughter he loved ; a sad deed that had left its mark on him . |
| 12 | The power that had selected him to fulfil the prophecy . |
| 13 | In December 1855 , he had instructed him to design a large extension to the Ordnance Office in Pall Mall to form a new War Department . |
| 14 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 15 | Charles 's best general , Lord George Murray , had persuaded him to take the south-west route into England , to keep the Pennines between himself and Field Marshal Wade , and the Jacobites therefore advanced on Carlisle , while the deputy-mayor and clergy observed their approach apprehensively through ‘ a very large spying glass ’ from the cathedral tower . |
| 16 | In one instance , it was believed in the family that one sister had visited their father during his final illness and had persuaded him to make a new will in her favour , directing his hand as he signed it . |
| 17 | Her love for him was intense and her sense of loss was as great when he was tragically killed in a crash on the way to visit her in New York a matter of months after winning the world middleweight title ; Piaf had persuaded him to make the trip . |
| 18 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 19 | Brunel had also commissioned him to prepare an abortive scheme for him for a house at Watcombe in 1851 . |
| 20 | Timothy Gedge had used him to practise a fantasy on . |
| 21 | Richard rather liked Willis 's pictures , and had got him to do a pen and wash drawing of Lord Jim . |
| 22 | , you should have told him to put an advert in . |
| 23 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 24 | Prince Rainbow had the power of the sky and the power of the hills and Frith had told him to order the world as he thought best . |
| 25 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 26 | While she spoke , she remembered Maxie 's grumble from behind his newspaper , the last time he had been home , when she had told him to do the leaves . |
| 27 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 28 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 29 | A moment 's reflection would have helped him to see the folly , cruelty , and hypocrisy of trying to force someone to acknowledge this . |
| 30 | Then the professor and Isobel , both young and enthusiastic , had helped him to choose a likely publisher to whom to send it . |