Example sentences of "[v-ing] he [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the main line of attack was that Heseltine should ‘ either put up or shut up ’ — with the apparent intention of forcing him either to keep silent or to declare himself before he was ready . |
| 2 | Uncorrected homework will create a negative attitude in the student , leading him eventually to believe that the teacher is not really interested in his progress . |
| 3 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 4 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 5 | Doctors have today been examining him again to try to assess whether there 's been any damage to his sight . |
| 6 | This requires the representative to hold a letter of authority from the member , entitling him so to act , and signed by or on behalf of the committee-member ( r 6.156(2) ) . |
| 7 | ‘ People barely had enough food to live on , but thought nothing of bringing him into their homes and feeding him and giving him somewhere to sleep . |
| 8 | So when are you bringing him home to meet us ? ’ |
| 9 | But when Zanuck returned and found Preminger at his studio , he promptly fired him from directing Laura , allowing him only to remain on the film as its producer . |
| 10 | Are we trusting him enough to enjoy him ? |
| 11 | But I am terrified of taking him home to meet the family and particularly my sister , in case he goes the way of all the others . |
| 12 | She moaned weakly , inviting him unknowingly to kiss her pouting lips . |
| 13 | She handed him the ring , telling him never to part with it . |
| 14 | Schlesinger 's agent tried to dissuade him from taking it on , advising him rather to direct Jack Lemmon in The April Fools . |