Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karadzic , apparently encouraged by the new international policy announced in Washington , not only invited Bosnian Muslim and Croat leaders to meet him to discuss a settlement but he also challenged the Muslims to a soccer match . |
| 2 | He tended to come behind the bit , so I wanted a fixed bit to encourage him to take a contact rather than a loose ring one . |
| 3 | A risk-averse individual would only be indifferent between transacting on the forward market and transacting on the future spot market if the terms he expects on the uncertain future spot market were sufficiently more favourable than the forward market to encourage him to take the risk . |
| 4 | A meeting at Bristol Guildhall on 17 November was called to congratulate the king on his escape , but attracted as well a large group who wished to implore him to end the war . |
| 5 | If Wigan youngster Grindley can produce one impressive lap of the Olympic Stadium in the Golden Gala meeting , selectors seem likely to pick him to run the event in the same arena in a fortnight 's time . |
| 6 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 7 | These could , probably more easily in early , rather than in later man , have been powerful enough to cause him to seek a substitute for his natural father or mother when they were no longer available to him , and he was in need . |
| 8 | If we are dealing with a regression to what may be a former lifetime , then , having asked the patient to go back to a period with which his subconscious mind feels comfortable , I like to help him to create the picture of his former personality little by little . |
| 9 | Cos I thought that was a with a utmost difficulty and he has to get his little daughter on Sunday to help him to clean the place . |
| 10 | Lancashire they used to call it and , we used to , they used to set one on at first and then , as he knocked , if he could knock one off his feet onto his two feet , then he had to help him to knock the others over as they come in close and er , I know they do n't sound nothing like , you know , now but er , in them days we use to think it was great . |
| 11 | Cocteau would have been delighted to introduce Modigliani to his world of the new couturiers and of Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , to help him to become a fashionable and popular portrait painter . |
| 12 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 13 | I can see that the third party would have a cogent argument that even if he were liable to compensate the plaintiffs in respect of these matters it would not be just and equitable to require him to make a contribution to the third defendant 's liability . |
| 14 | If you go back to the time United Biscuits felt they had to close their Liverpool factory , the bishops up in Liverpool marched on Hector Laing and tried to persuade him to put the decision off . |
| 15 | ‘ I think they will if you can get the Old Man to twist the Khedive 's arm enough to persuade him to withdraw the levy . ’ |
| 16 | We began by talking politics , which he enjoyed doing with someone not out to convert him to socialism — then , as now , the established faith of most intellectuals — and , referring to A. L. Rowse 's fervent attempts , the first of many , to persuade him to join the Labour Party , he flung wide his arms and said : ‘ I refuse to be tied down to allegiances of this kind . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Patrick McGoohan , who wrote the series , was looking for a car to use and Lotus tried to persuade him to use the Elan , ’ says Graham Nearn , managing director of Caterham Cars , which still makes the Seven today . |
| 18 | Aloud , she said , ‘ Did n't you try to persuade him to call the police ? ’ |
| 19 | It was Guy fitzAlan 's task to deliver Stephen 's invitation to de Tracy and to persuade him to accept the inevitable — if such persuasion was necessary . |
| 20 | Generally , however , they must have been concerned to persuade him to become an amenable ruler . |
| 21 | The next time he went to church she waylaid him after the evening service , and tried to persuade him to enter the hall , where — as he had guessed — a cup of tea was about to be made . |
| 22 | Kasparov said he had been negotiating with the FIDE president , Florencio Campomanes , for several days to try to persuade him to transfer the federation 's rights to stage the championship to the PCA and make Manchester a ‘ transitionary ’ match . |
| 23 | Ever since the happy visit of the year before , I had been trying to persuade him to pay a second and , if possible , longer visit . |
| 24 | Try to persuade him to make a real effort to give up smoking — he may put on a bit of weight but he can tackle that later — and to eat frequent snacks throughout the day instead of two or three heavy meals . |
| 25 | One may imagine that bishops would rush to ordain him to make the point . |
| 26 | She was not squeamish about using her considerable social influence in support of her son Winston ; she pressed his writing on publishers , sought for favourable reviewers , and appealed directly to the third Marquess of Salisbury , then prime minister , to permit him to join the expedition to the Sudan under Sir H. Herbert Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , q.v . ) . |
| 27 | In Parliament two days later , Paisely asked James Prior , leader of the House of Commons , to permit him to make a statement to the House on the matter . |
| 28 | Erm that was er Steve from the Youth Centre because we 've just er told him how much it 's going to cost him to use the school premises next year , and he 's thrown a dickey fit . |
| 29 | Sir Robert 's luck was not in on this occasion , however , for Milton had already promised the desired appointment to Cockburn of Clerkington to induce him to lead the opposition in East Lothian to Sir Hew Dalrymple of North Berwick , in order to secure the seat for Andrew Fletcher , younger of Saltoun . |
| 30 | In courteously making a special journey to Beeching 's home to induce him to accept the invitation , Gardiner incurred the Prime Minister 's displeasure : Dr Beeching should have been invited to call on the Lord Chancellor . |