Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 are clear and they are mandatory in form , to the extent that if the justice is not of the opinion that the person is not likely to surrender to custody , or has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , the justice has to grant him bail subject to the same conditions , if any , as were originally imposed . |
| 2 | They 'd ganged up on Kenny and afterwards he looked as if the mean streets had come up to meet him face first . |
| 3 | As it is now three weeks since the Kincardine and Deeside by-election , when will he respond to our invitation to meet him to discuss these serious matters ? |
| 4 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 5 | The fearful heat of the city seemed to encourage him to sleep half his time away and she had never felt more English than when she observed his devotion that summer to the long siesta . |
| 6 | Realising that his son had little chance of success in Munich Leopold began trying to encourage him to lay other plans and Nannerl joined in the plea saying : |
| 7 | However , after discharge from hospital he remained isolated despite efforts that were made to encourage him to develop social contacts through joining community clubs . |
| 8 | She woke in the night to find him lying flat on his back , the glow of a cigarette lighting up his face as he inhaled . |
| 9 | To her surprise , he wrote to her more that winter than at any time before and she was touched to find him attempting more than the sweet but stilted compositions he had managed previously . |
| 10 | But he knew that for his expansion plans to work he needed two things : further capital investment , and a designer of genius . |
| 11 | It was nice to know he felt good about her being here but she wanted more than that — but how selfish of her to expect any more . |
| 12 | But history would seem to indicate he has other priorities than handing British assets to the highest bidder |
| 13 | I seem to remember him doing some inane arse wiggling at the time . |
| 14 | ‘ I keep hearing people say they do n't want to see Ovett running 3:58 because they want to remember him running 3:48 . |
| 15 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 16 | Whatever had happened up on the moor to cause him to feel this way about Sarah , she wondered . |
| 17 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 18 | I seem to remember he knocked six past some hapless club last year in one match . |
| 19 | It 's hard to imagine him manoeuvring hefty cargoes through Le Sentier 's teeming streets , but that is how he makes his living . |
| 20 | another person is present at all times , not merely to assist the subject to enter the regressed state but to help him avoid any difficulty or distress ; |
| 21 | During periods when the ruler was absent from Cetinje — often trying to persuade the Venetians to help him to resist Turkish pressure — the bishop took charge of the government . |
| 22 | Above all , despite frequent irritation with Helen over trivial expenses and her unbusinesslike attitude to her wages , he relied heavily on her temper , ‘ her genius for joy ’ , to help him break free of these moods . |
| 23 | I want to help him to do that . |
| 24 | He asked me for £100,000 to help him pay legal fees . |
| 25 | Godolphin would need Dowd to help him calm these suspicions , and a man who needed his dog knew not to kick it too hard . |
| 26 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 27 | To help him do that , manager Graham Taylor 's best hope of Wright reproducing his Arsenal club form for England will be to let his free spirit roam across Wembley . |
| 28 | Well , I 've met him , and I 'm going to help him to get better . ’ |
| 29 | Almost certainly , he has a weak visual memory , and so any teaching should aim to help him to strengthen that ; but he has some difficulty with the auditory side , too . |
| 30 | His later role as a kind of travelling salesman of international anti-semitism is only tangentially related to the scope of this study , although he was to be of considerable significance in his role as vice-president of the IFL and the legacy he bequeathed to Arnold Leese was to help him revive racial nationalism after the Second World War . |