Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 2 | Before the trial , the Sunday Times had just asked him to pose for the fashion pages of their magazine , wearing tough-guy togs . |
| 3 | Greed has sometimes led him to trade for two licensed dealers at once . |
| 4 | In effect , the Chancellor did what many oil executives have urged him to do for years when he decided to abolish petroleum revenue tax ( PRT ) on future projects . |
| 5 | This entitled him to search for and sell ‘ natural gas , petroleum , asphalt and ozokerite ’ throughout all of Persia except in the five northern provinces adjoining Russia . |
| 6 | The second , and the one with which he is still struggling , required him to search for a means of making the pupils less dependent on him for their mathematics . |
| 7 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 8 | Ronnie Koeman captained the Dutch team for half the game after Johan Cruyff , the expatriate but hardly patriotic Dutchman who manages Barcelona , had ordered him to rest for a week . |
| 9 | An ugly modern extension obscures part of the Godfrey building at present and Moran says his architectural consultants have advised him to apply for permission to remove it and replace it with a gatehouse . |