Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't easy to make a fitting with her in LA and me in Paris , ’ says the designer , though at Christmas Madonna found time to visit him in Paris , where she spent her time ‘ jogging and pumping iron ’ . |
| 2 | If he fails to attend a second time the judge has power to commit him to prison for contempt of court . |
| 3 | Thus the education of a king 's son was supposed to include learning to sleep in a hard or badly made bed to prepare him for the rigours of a life of non-stop , and sometimes unexpected , movement . |
| 4 | His Buddhist piety led representatives of the thousands of Untouchables who had embraced Buddhism to invite him to be their leader . |
| 5 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 6 | It was a special gift from a famous actor in California who had tried to persuade Sweetheart to join him on a luxury tour of Europe . |
| 7 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry , ’ she cried desperately , risking electrocution to yank him to his feet . |
| 9 | The secretary was therefore directed to write to the Duke of Northumberland , asking permission to nominate him as president . |
| 10 | The secretary was directed to write to the Master of the Horse , asking leave to nominate him as president of the College at the forthcoming general meeting . |
| 11 | He was already out there , virtually his spiritual home according to his team-mates back in Taunton , and it made sense to put him on alert . |
| 12 | And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston . |
| 13 | Though he was apparently deeply affected by his visits to hospitals , Pétain refused to allow squeamishness to deter him from his duty . |
| 14 | On several occasions , Darwin had recourse to ask Prince to supply him with information that Gould had not given him . |
| 15 | He would be obliged to offer me some aid , knowing I had information to help him in his pursuit of the monster . |
| 16 | He was a taciturn man who found it difficult to talk to a boy ; but he did sometimes spare time to tell him of his travels in the wilder parts of Alberta , of encounters with grizzly bears , white water rushing through narrow gorges , being lost in unexpected snowstorms , in an unconquered wilderness totally alien to his suburb-bred son . |
| 17 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , Tom Gibson 's excellence as a plastic surgeon , collaborative bio-engineer and teacher have been noted , and innumerable patients and young surgeons worldwide have cause to remember him with gratitude and affection . |