Example sentences of "[vb infin] him [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | America 's economic sanctions failed to dislodge General Manuel Noriega but squeezed the economy dry ; the invasion that did dislodge him left a war-battered city , with some 18,000 people homeless and unemployment soaring . |
| 2 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 3 | And why should she expect him to change a system which benefited men so greatly ? |
| 4 | They ca n't really expect him to have a physical game this afternoon can they with David Speedy ? |
| 5 | On Cable TV , in pirated tapes in bars , you could watch him watching a buddy screw another woman until she had to complain it was all getting just too wild . |
| 6 | Whatever I thought did n't prevent him maintaining a huge Spanish style mansion in several acres of ground . |
| 7 | Methven was later to create an embarrassing scandal among the godly , when he was publicly deposed for adultery in 1562 — a sin which did not prevent him finding a niche among the ministry of the Church of England — but in 1558 he was a major asset to the Protestants , preaching not only in Dundee but , during the summer months , in other parts of Angus and in Fife . |
| 8 | The earlier ones ( left ) abbreviate the king 's name to EDW and show him wearing a crown with a triple tip ; the later ones ( right ) have EDWA and a double tip . |
| 9 | From now on you 'll see him taking a part . |
| 10 | His attendance has been confirmed by Disney but , as one organiser admitted , ‘ I ca n't see him eating a burger . ’ |
| 11 | You could see him coming a block away . |
| 12 | Bernice could see him raise a bulky suited arm and gesture grandly at the surroundings . |
| 13 | And I can buy back Robert 's 25 per cent of this place — you know I do n't like him having a foot in the door here . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been too busy to take him out all day , and I do like him to have a little outing . ’ |
| 15 | Peter had discovered that his five villages would not like him to have a working wife . |
| 16 | As it is , the voters have confounded the pollsters by granting John Major a clear mandate , which should enable him to lead a reforming Conservative government until 1997 . |
| 17 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 18 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |
| 19 | I could hear him whistling a long way behind . |
| 20 | She could hear him take a deep breath . |
| 21 | So great was Paul 's obsession that the only way Mrs Bedworth could force him to take a break was by switching off the electricity supply at the mains , she told Southwark Crown Court . |
| 22 | He has kept his figure and his bearing — although I suspect vanity might have him wearing a male corset . |
| 23 | If he gets away , you can easily have him become a nemesis figure for the adventurers in future , returning again and again to avenge himself for the loss of Juliane . |
| 24 | What Franco failed to take into account , however , was , first , that Germany had its own designs on French Morocco ; second , that Hitler did not want to provoke Free French/Allied resistance in North Africa which would oblige him to open a new military front far away from what was then his principal concern , namely the invasion of the British Isles ; and , third , that Hitler was not convinced of the need or utility of Spanish military help . |
| 25 | ‘ Would you like — look , here 's your teddy , look , d' you want him to do a dance-Christopher ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Did you want him to become a doctor ? ’ |
| 27 | She extended the invitation with extreme reluctance , since she certainly did n't want him to stay a second longer than was strictly necessary . |
| 28 | She did n't want him to have a hurt heart that he hid with bitter repartee . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , you must make him wear a wig or some kind of decoration for the performance itself . ’ |
| 30 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |