Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1988 Nelson was charged with threatening to kill a man from Sandy Row and warning him not to attend court as a witness in an assault case . |
| 2 | Along with four other intellectuals , including Regis Debray , feminist writer Elisabeth Badinter signed an open letter to Mr Jospin , saying that the scarf is a symbol of Muslim women 's oppression and warning him not to capitulate . |
| 3 | Pressure on the authorities not to send Mr Yang back to China grew on Tuesday when Amnesty International requested all its members telex John Major , the Foreign Secretary , urging him not to allow Mr Yang to be returned ‘ under any circumstances ’ . |
| 4 | James would probably have been content to live quietly for a time but both Mary and Louis were insistent on immediate action and his chief remaining ally in the British Isles , Richard Talbot , Earl of Tyrconnel , Lord Deputy and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland , wrote urging him not to settle into comfortable inactivity in France when Ireland offered a kingdom of his own ‘ plentiful in all things for human life ’ . |
| 5 | Back in Oxford I fax John a note telling him how much I have enjoyed working with him , and urging him not to get too red . |
| 6 | Jack wrote a poem to Warnie , urging him not to look back out of the car window as it hurtled away , leaving their childhood behind them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He has a final interview with Miss Havisham , and forgives her the wrong she has done him in leading him on to believe that she was his benefactor . |
| 10 | You were pulling him back to get on the dance floor ! |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | My reason is that George spent a few minutes with Lennie , comforting and making him a happy man by reminding him of his dreams , before sending him off to find his final dream in heaven . |
| 13 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 14 | Apart from that , the Empress had announced that if her husband went , she would accompany him — possibly using this as a means of persuading him not to go . |
| 15 | If he acts solely from self-interest , then there are good reasons for expecting him not to participate in the democratic process . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They seemed to be teaching him how to do things he did n't want to do more than anything else . |
| 18 | ‘ Miss Lodsworth 'll be teaching him how to untie clove hitches . ’ |
| 19 | With various delicate transitions that left me sighing in assent , the film now turned into a gentle parodic love story , the girl civilizing Spunk — teaching him how to dress , eat , speak — and Spunk decivilizing her : teaching her to kick the booze , the pick-ups , the self-destruction , the money ( they go primitive for a while , after Spunk has an urban breakdown . |
| 20 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 21 | He half-stumbled out of the room up to his bed and blessed , blessed sleep , where his dreams were a mixture of lobsters with evil intent towards the Prince of Wales , of Charles Dickens teaching him how to catch a pungar , and of Araminta , receding further and further into a boiling sea of mutton broth . |
| 22 | I worked him quietly through the autumn , teaching him how to work in the correct outline , maintaining his balance and an even rein contact , progressing to transitions , turns , serpentines and learning about length bend , rhythm and total obedience . |
| 23 | If you introduce the pupil to this strategy , you are teaching him how to learn . |
| 24 | Doctors have today been examining him again to try to assess whether there 's been any damage to his sight . |
| 25 | 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) ) . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | When he came for Sunday lunch , I wept and clung to him , begging him not to leave until he had to prise me off . |
| 28 | He wrote to the pope , begging him not to send Thomas his pallium until he had sworn obedience to Canterbury , for if he once possessed his pallium , he would never make his submission . |
| 29 | The next day she left for Amsterdam , earlier than expected , after asking him not to try to get in touch with her there . |
| 30 | But , eh listen , if , do n't be frighten if there 's anything that you do n't know do n't you be frightened of asking him how to do it |