Example sentences of "[verb] him [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge him to read the newspapers that come through my door in Billericay . |
| 2 | I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all . |
| 3 | She got out , pulling up the hood of her waterproof , and helped him to carry the crates up the drive . |
| 4 | ‘ I got on the radio to my controller and told him to call the police quick . ’ |
| 5 | Some of Hugo 's drunken friends told him to let the hounds chase her , and so he ran from the house and unlocked the dogs . |
| 6 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 7 | He came away from the Old Entrance , having collected those of the destroyer 's crew not taken off by ML 6 , and as Micky Wynn came up with his special MTB , Robert Ryder told him to fire the torpedoes at the outer lock gate in the Old Entrance . |
| 8 | The British ambassador at Constantinople , meanwhile , was pro-Turkish to the point of ignoring instructions from London which told him to advise the Turks to give ground to Russia . |
| 9 | His use of ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ heretical ’ allows him to sidestep the terms ‘ classical ’ and ‘ romantic , , so incorporating elements otherwise labelled ‘ romantic ’ into the structure of his tradition which had been sanctified with an anthropological definition . |
| 10 | We recently joined with other organisations to write to the Secretary of State for the Environment urging him to change the rules set out in Minerals Planning Guidance Note 3 . |
| 11 | His lawyer , Mr Ratcliffe , advised him to obtain the services of William Fearnley Whittingshall , a brilliant young barrister . |
| 12 | He received additional stimulation from holiday excursions and tours , so that his visit to France ( combined with a reading of Milton ) encouraged him to explore the possibilities of a new form — for him — the sonnet . |
| 13 | In 1883 he entered the laboratory as bottle washer to James Taylor , chief chemist , who encouraged him to study the principles of chemical analysis . |
| 14 | Lancashire they used to call it and , we used to , they used to set one on at first and then , as he knocked , if he could knock one off his feet onto his two feet , then he had to help him to knock the others over as they come in close and er , I know they do n't sound nothing like , you know , now but er , in them days we use to think it was great . |
| 15 | ‘ I would like him to contact the police incase he can help but also because I would like to shake him by the hand . |
| 16 | And , she would like him to know the Morals Committee had just succeeded in having D.H . |
| 17 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 18 | Before the passing of the 1980 Act certain decisions of this court , in particular Wallis ' Cayton Bay Holiday Camp Ltd v Shellmex and BP Ltd [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 575 and Gray v Wykeham-Martin [ 1977 ] CA Transcript 10A were thought to have established a general doctrine that in one special type of case there would be implied in favour of the would-be adverse possessor , without any specific factual basis for such implication , a licence permitting him to commit the acts of possession on which he sought to rely ; the effect of implying such a licence would , of course , be to prevent the squatter 's possession from being " adverse " . |
| 19 | While she spoke , she remembered Maxie 's grumble from behind his newspaper , the last time he had been home , when she had told him to do the leaves . |
| 20 | Aloud , she said , ‘ Did n't you try to persuade him to call the police ? ’ |
| 21 | Author Mik Chinery runs a powerboat school and has been involved in the incorporation of electronic navigation in RYA courses , a background which has enabled him to explain the principles and application of this still relatively new field . |
| 22 | Evans-Pritchard , too , followed this style of research because no other would have enabled him to gain the insights that he wanted . |
| 23 | At Mr Baker 's age there was little point and probably less chance of persuading him to change the habits of a lifetime . |
| 24 | She taught him to read the words at the top of the page . |
| 25 | ( 10 ) An order on originating summons which orders the convening of the meeting(s) of shareholders , directs the target to advertise the notice of meeting(s) , appoints the chairman of the meeting(s) and requires him to report the results of the meeting(s) to the court . |
| 26 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ That ’ to the end of the Question , and to add instead thereof : this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill because of the inadequacy of the groundwater protection provisions in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule , because the public consultation on the Hydrotechnica report is not yet concluded , because that consultation process has allowed no mechanism for public discussion of the report , and because the Bill makes no provision for an independent final arbiter on matters concerning the quality of the water environment in the inland bay . |
| 27 | The groundwater protection provisions are inadequate in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule . |
| 28 | I hope that I can enable him to understand the laws of the game with which we are now involved . |
| 29 | Fogerty , 23 , appears as a South African boxer — a role which required him to join the actors ' union Equity . |
| 30 | Has X got property rights over the goods entitling him to recover the goods ( or their value ) in priority to any other creditors of Y Ltd. , or , on the other hand , is he merely an unsecured creditor having only a right to sue for the price ? |