Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] him [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got home to find Kenneth hunched over his desk engrossed in a pile of newly purchased books on the subject of lymphoma and a medical dictionary to help him understand the terminology . |
| 2 | It takes a lot of gratuitous cruelty perpetrated in the name of dogma to make him criticize the Party , as when the ‘ Attack the Evil Winds of Capitalism Team ’ tells the old peasant Guo Lao-da to kill the six ‘ capitalist ’ ducks he owns . |
| 3 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |
| 4 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 5 | Mr O'Donnell said he had agreed to go with McPherson on the night of his ordeal to help him steal a van from Tarbert . |
| 6 | But her plan to make him sing the Neil Diamond song Nobody Brings Me Flowers live on air fell through . |
| 7 | Even though some expert clauses do not specifically reserve the right for the parties to make submissions or representations to the expert ( see 8.15 ) , it is unlikely that this right will be lost through its omission , because the expert will usually want to receive submissions or representations of some kind to help him understand the issue he has to determine . |
| 8 | Even those Tory Anglicans who welcomed William 's assistance had no desire to see him gain the Crown . |
| 9 | He returned to the barn to ask the other farm workers to help him cover the ricks . |
| 10 | In 1734 , for example , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet , the sheriff-depute of Stirlingshire , pressed Lord Ilay to help him add the office of keeper of the register of sasines for Stirling and the stewartry of Menteith to his official holdings , for he found the sheriffship to be more trouble than it was worth . |
| 11 | Spencer managed to persuade Tony Bianchi to let him have an hour-and-a-half in a Harvard , by way of working up to his most impressive taildragger to date … |
| 12 | And right up until that time Fred Hann , managing director of FWH , was urging English Estates to let him buy the freehold of his Nelson Street warehouse . |
| 13 | If that had been the case , then he could at least have received finance in the eighties when rich and influential independent figures such as Steven Spielberg , Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty — all of whom professed admiration for Welles — had the chance to help him get a film financed and passed . |
| 14 | Now was her chance to let him see the image of herself that everyone else saw . |
| 15 | He signed the deal in February , persuaded Morgan Grenfell to let him buy the company Jag and left the City to become a mini-captain of industry . |
| 16 | If the accused uses force on a railway signalman to make him stop a train , it is robbery if the accused steals from the train . |
| 17 | David Strang , whose South African-based Glaswegian parents were in Toronto to see him become the first Briton to win a world indoors 1,500m medal , also has a connection with the Boyle squad . |
| 18 | Now an enthusiast from Wigan is appealing to the town 's former loco engineering brains-trust to help him return a currently heavily corroded expatriate railcar to service deep in the Emerald Isle … |
| 19 | For the next few weeks the male passes food for his entire family through this hole until the female breaks the wall down and leaves the hole to help him collect the increasing quantity of food demanded by the growing chicks . |
| 20 | It seems that during a period of good relations between the Spaniards and the native Indians , the cacique of one local tribe had become blood-brother to Balboa , and had actually persuaded the Spaniard to help him prosecute a local war . |
| 21 | Thirty thousand spectators turned up at Lillie Bridge in London to see him run the mile against William Cummings of Paisley and in the return match George 's time of 4 min. 12.75 sec. was not beaten in Britain for forty-nine years . |
| 22 | He wants residents to help him gather a mountain of cans , aluminium or tin , to be recycled on May 6 . |
| 23 | George 's favourite model , his daughter Samantha , had turned model-maker for this project and fashioned a velvet beanbag to help him achieve a realistic finish and to portray the Teddy as an ‘ old bear with modern leanings . ’ |
| 24 | The fertile play of dialogue in these novels , often predominating on the printed page , is a constant stream of signals flashed to the reader to help him estimate the age , the mood , and the standing — real or pretended — of their characters from instant to instant . |
| 25 | It was what she had thought only minutes before , so why did she feel this strange little ache to hear him repeat the sentiment ? |
| 26 | But 27-year-old Clinton is banking on the traditional deafening din to help him wrest the WBO flyweight title from Mexican Isidro Perez and become only the sixth Scot to hold a world crown . |
| 27 | They carted him like a scarecrow , his heels scoring the gravel , but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart , he would never squeal without a hard prod ; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper . |