Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 2 | He sent for Eleanor to join him in Normandy and when she arrived , a message went to Richard , requiring him to surrender Aquitaine to his mother , the lawful duchess . |
| 3 | But Hendry had quickly noticed that security was being beefed up , with police mingling with crowds at the Rothmans Grand Prix in Reading and the UK Championship in Preston after threats to shoot him at the table . |
| 4 | Lemos resigned on March 25 , allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges . |
| 5 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 6 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
| 7 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 8 | ( When he became Chancellor of the Exchequer this practice caused consternation at the Treasury , when he used only a page of notes to assist him in moving complicated resolutions on wartime finance ; he relied successfully on his memory to provide details and figures . ) |
| 9 | He released a hundred quintols of amyl to remind him of that . |
| 10 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 11 | Either that or she 's run out of schools to send him to . |
| 12 | It is not recorded in what mischief the Lord Mayor of York used to indulge , but the Lady Mayoress had a three foot long staff of honour to keep him in order ! |
| 13 | His election on three separate occasions as MP for Middlesex in 1768–69 , and the repeated refusals of the House of Commons to admit him as a member , did much to stimulate in London the current of political radicalism which was later to run so strongly there . |
| 14 | Feeling depressed one day he decided to explore a few of the corridors in Nightside and plant his packet of seeds to remind him of home . |
| 15 | And he knows there will be plenty of business to occupy him against Thornton . |
| 16 | Redpath had acted at once on the very slenderest of chances — apart from the date , and the fact that Stavanger was missing , there was n't a scrap of evidence to link him with the body found on the Thames foreshore at low tide . |
| 17 | Moral education in the Catholic School is intimately connected to Religious Education because fundamental to both is the personal call of Jesus to follow him as Lord and Saviour in the everyday events of life . |
| 18 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |
| 19 | One of Reith 's first actions as Minister of Works was to appoint a panel of consultants to advise him on post-war planning . |
| 20 | At the end of April 1973 I went to see the King of Morocco to tell him about a plot to kill him . |
| 21 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 22 | He seems to have allowed his awareness of the different native languages of Britain to lead him into defining Oswald 's Anglo-British imperium in excessive terms . |
| 23 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 24 | Ine did not allow the displeasure of Canterbury at his failure to agree to a partition of the diocese of Winchester to drive him into action on the matter , despite threats of excommunication . |
| 25 | Many have thus latched on to Oakeshott 's use of tradition to identify him as a Burkean conservative . |
| 26 | ‘ If a guitarist smokes a couple of weeds to get him in the mood to play no-one bats an eyelid because he 's a public entertainer . |
| 27 | A brief outline of the events is that the editor of a major medical journal ( a ) republished a previously published paper solely in order to attack it in an editorial ; ( b ) did this without the authors ' permission , while stating the opposite ; ( c ) initially refused to allow the original authors the right to reply in his editorial criticism ; ( d ) published a further editorial attack when ( a year later ) he published an edited version of the authors ' response ; ( d ) refused to publish any other correspondence about the editorial attacks ; and ( f ) gave another editor a dishonest account of events to dissuade him from publishing our account of the affair . |
| 28 | ‘ Between the cup and the lip it has pleased the Great Disposer of events to visit him with the greatest of all afflictions in the bereavement of his most affectionate wife . |
| 29 | John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same . |
| 30 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |