Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] he [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person under investigation or any other person to produce at such place as may be specified in the notice and either forthwith or at such time as may be so specified any specified documents which appear to the Director to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation or any documents of a specified description which appear to him so to relate ; and — ( a ) if any such documents are produced , the Director may — ( i ) take copies or extracts from them ; ( ii ) require the person producing them to provide an explanation of any of them ; ( b ) if any such documents are not produced , the Director may require the person who was required to produce them to state , to the best of his knowledge and belief , where they are . |
| 2 | The tragedy is that Pilate still rejected the Lord Jesus , although his loved one appealed to him not to do so . |
| 3 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 4 | Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life . |
| 5 | When he first fell in , I remember shouting at him impatiently to stop fooling about . |
| 6 | And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant . |
| 7 | ‘ We are hoping to hear from him soon to see if there is money available to support us . |
| 8 | If Fiver 's horrors had kept him above ground all night in the rain , oblivious of cold and prowling elil , then clearly it was not going to he easy to talk him out of them . |
| 9 | To herself she thought : I want to look at him again to see exactly what colour . |
| 10 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 11 | The stoma care nurse visited Mr Reynolds later in the day and demonstrated to him how to change the colostomy appliance . |
| 12 | Annie and Jack yelled at him not to drive forward , as Chivers the cat was in front of the car . |
| 13 | Wright was substituted against Norway , having lost his way after missing a good chance , but Taylor said : ‘ He deserves another go , but I must impress on him not to get so uptight if one gets away . |
| 14 | Dale Weller , of Whitcliffe Grange , Richmond , said Sturdy had explained to him how to spot counterfeit video tapes . |
| 15 | I pleaded with him not to leave me . |
| 16 | Ecclestone , president of the Formula One Constructors Association , had pleaded with him not to do it and added : ‘ I 'm frightened for him . |
| 17 | She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness . |
| 18 | Hearing that the young man was the only son of a gentleman of wealth , the money-lender begged of him never to hesitate in coming to him again whenever he stood in need of a ‘ friend ’ . |
| 19 | They made just enough money busking for him not to have to go back to that . |
| 20 | It may be that in those circumstances an injunction could be obtained against him effectively to prevent his giving his authority to advertising activities in the name of the firm which would be prohibited if done in his own name . |
| 21 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 22 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |