Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you had to pull him down to dance . |
| 2 | Worry about finding his half of the mortgage must be getting to her , she realised as she left the kitchen , knowing that just thinking of her brother was not going to conjure him home to pay his dues . |
| 3 | The teacher 's job is not to correct mistakes the pupil has already made , but to help him not to make that mistake next time . |
| 4 | The teacher 's job is not to correct mistakes the pupil has already made , but to help him not to make that mistake next time . |
| 5 | knows or has reasonable cause to believe that , because of the individual 's connection and position , it would be reasonable to expect him not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of his duties . |
| 6 | We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony . |
| 7 | And even as he began , a top executive from Renault-Williams tried to persuade him not to go through with it . |
| 8 | OUTSPOKEN SDLP councillor Brian Feeney returns from the United States today to face a concerted bid by his party colleagues to persuade him not to quit his City Hall seat . |
| 9 | Eddie McAteer made a public call for the march to be postponed , but Fred Heatley , John McAnerney and Betty Sinclair visited him at home to persuade him not to pull out . |
| 10 | ESSEX are prepared to offer former England captain Keith Fletcher ‘ a job for life ’ in an attempt to persuade him not to become the next England team manager . |
| 11 | From the start , he was in conflict with the DUP 's leadership who tried to persuade him not to accept the local branch 's nomination to stand for the Assembly . |
| 12 | A veterinary is what Uncle Tommy might have been if there had been the money to send him away to train , because he was very good with animals . |
| 13 | But what do you want now ? — for me to send him round to say sorry ? ’ |
| 14 | A Labour government would be wise to send him off to make a very long film in India . |
| 15 | As the first law of kung fu is defend , then attack , the student who has gained knowledge of the basic strikes , has next to be trained in parries and blocking manoeuvres to enable him effectively to stop a punch without being hit himself . |
| 16 | He went to live among the Nuer of the southern Sudan as a vulnerable outsider , relying on their goodwill and friendship to enable him gradually to merge into the background of their everyday lives . |
| 17 | As she gave oral sex to the other man , Davis watched fascinated , and , asking her to instruct him how to do it , took over from her . |
| 18 | Rather he guides the student to likely sources and tries to teach him how to find paths to other sources . |
| 19 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 20 | His wife had to call him in to tell him he had won ! |
| 21 | When he went away after lunch , I wanted to call him back to talk . |
| 22 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 23 | I hope we have succeeded in appointing a Project Manager and will be able to get him here to start work sooner rather than later . |
| 24 | God knows it is hard enough to get him off to sleep in that place and he 's asleep now . " |
| 25 | Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation . |
| 26 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 27 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 28 | Mitch was lingering behind , busily clicking away with his wonderful camera and Maggie stifled the need to remind him not to waste his film . |
| 29 | The building intrigued Modigliani , and he asked Osterlind to take him up to see Renoir . |
| 30 | She did n't offer to take him back to meet the cast . |