Example sentences of "[verb] him [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want him to reach the stage where he will be talked about for his golf and not for his petulance — we 've had enough . |
| 2 | And did this tempt him to doctor the evidence in the ways shown above ? |
| 3 | It was in Launceston that Gould took the opportunity of parting company with Gilbert , instructing him to await the arrival in Launceston of the Comet , which would carry him on to the Swan River in Western Australia . |
| 4 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 5 | General Manager W H Good , recognised the potential that George possessed and invited him to join the Company as an apprentice . |
| 6 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 7 | In 1923 R. W. Chapman [ q.v. ] invited him to revise the edition by G. Birkbeck Hill [ q.v. ] of James Boswell [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 9 | On 12 October 1974 an industrial friend at Unilever invited him to share the company 's box at Covent Garden to see an opera . |
| 10 | Istvan Gati , as the Persian King , Orontes , is a sensational baritone with a clear , passionate tone , although his baritone Jozsef Moldvay sounds as though he has something stuck at the back o his mouth , a bit of dust maybe , which causes him to deliver the interpretation of his role in a somewhat unexpected manner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well I expect him to pay the insurance . |
| 13 | Make contact with the chairman of the Uses Committee and press him to place the church in the hands of the local office of one of the national estate agents . |
| 14 | The sellers got the rice completely ready for collection and were requested by the buyer for a delivery order enabling him to collect the rice . |
| 15 | In the morning the Oxford Coroner would open and adjourn the inquest , enabling him to release the body to the next of kin , in this case Ambassador Fairweather in person , representing President John Cormack . |
| 16 | On these assumptions , the expatriate vote clinched the Vale of Glamorgan for Mr Walter Sweeney , enabling him to recapture the seat lost in 1989 to Labour , and may have tipped the balance in Mr Michael Stern 's defence of Bristol North-West . |
| 17 | A patent is a very desirable form of intellectual property because it gives the owner a monopoly in an invention , enabling him to exploit the invention for a number of years to the exclusion of other people ( subject to provisions designed to prevent abuse of the monopoly granted ) . |
| 18 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 19 | These photographs — ‘ my life 's blood ’ — are pinned to his bench enabling him to check the size and configuration of the newly-carved elements . |
| 20 | Amendments made : No. 62 , in page , 47 line , 43 , at end insert — ( ) The terms and conditions on which the Secretary of State may make any grants under this paragraph may include in particular conditions — ( a ) enabling him to require the repayment , in whole or in part , of sums paid by him if any other condition subject to which the sums were paid is not complied with ; and ( b ) requiring the payment of interest in respect of any period during which a sum due to him in accordance with any other condition remains unpaid , but shall not relate to the application by the college council to which the grant is made of any sums derived otherwise than from the Secretary of State . ' . |
| 21 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Thousands of officers in London today were pressing him to ignore the report altogether . |
| 24 | He was equally generous to Cuthbert , pressing him to accept the bishopric of Lindisfarne in 685 and granting him and his church land in Cartmel and Carlisle in the north-west and in Crayke in the vale of York . |
| 25 | The positive attributes of Piggy stressed were his mature attitude , good scientific understanding , which helped him to dismiss the beast quickly , and clear head ( which became very important towards the end of the book ) . |
| 26 | Robert Dodsley was encouraged by Daniel Defoe and by Pope whose gift of £100 helped him to enter the book-trade . |
| 27 | It was after this that Vere Barker , his rather grand agent , helped him to get the house in Hampstead and began to up his fees even for radio — for which he continued to work — poems , plays , schools radio , £10 , £12 , £20 sometimes : it all totted up . |
| 28 | What is sure is that Field , with his access to the latest English pianos at an early age , at no time played the harpsichord , and this , perhaps , above all helped him to develop the use of the pedal , which he would often sustain through changes of harmony , for the sake of the colouring of the phrase . |
| 29 | The Colonel had trusted him to rid the Chairman of the darts of the writer with the poisoned pen . |
| 30 | God and his Reason commanded him to subdue the Earth , i.e. improve it for the benefit of Life , and therein lay out something upon it that was his own , his labour . |