Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little Coleman could do in the circumstances except fill out an IAP-66 authorization form for Syrian George and take him over to the embassy for a J-1 visa to admit him to the United States for a course of study at UAB . |
| 2 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 3 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 4 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 5 | Anfield has quickly taken to the midfielder and manager Graeme Souness 's decision to replace him with Michael Thomas during Tuesday 's match with Southampton was greeted by a chorus of boos . |
| 6 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 7 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 8 | BARRY FRY wants to put Stan Flashman through the wringer by forcing the man dubbed ‘ Fat Stan ’ to account for yesterday 's decision to sack him as Barnet manager before an industrial tribunal . |
| 9 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 10 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 11 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 12 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 13 | [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow . |
| 14 | Sula was by birth a Manghutt princess , and she had lived under sentence of banishment until her son 's accession to the Dragon Throne for her part in her family 's attempt to install him as Kha-Khan while his grandfather Arjun yet ruled . |
| 15 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 16 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 17 | Rather they would have been bound by Roxborough 's edict to destroy him at whatever cost to their bodies , souls or sanity that might entail . |
| 18 | At all events , King Malcolm 's immediate reaction to Rufus 's refusal to see him at Gloucester was to go straight to Wilton , tear the veil off Matilda 's head , and take her back to Scotland . |
| 19 | ‘ Alas that a child of barely eleven summers must stand at the king 's elbow to remind him of his duty ! ’ lamented Elizabeth Woodville . |
| 20 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 21 | Penda was no stranger to Bernician terrain across which he had campaigned before ( HE 111 , 16 ) , and his army successfully traversed the whole length of Oswiu 's kingdom to besiege him at Iudeu . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought , ’ she said , ignoring her father 's advice to treat him with kid gloves , ‘ not that it 's any business of yours , that I might potter into Nice for the day . ’ |
| 23 | Bartram expressed gratitude for Miller 's offer to assist him in understanding Linnaeus 's system and commented on the Swedish naturalist 's publication of all the North American plants observed by Kalm on his visit ( i.e. Species Plantarum , 2 vols. 1753 ) adding , ‘ I long to see these books — to see if they have done me justice , as Kalm promised me . ’ |
| 24 | Stealing from the camp one night with only his rifle and iron rations , wading the river at the border , finding a sympathetic ship 's captain to take him to Sweden , working there for a while and then making his way down through Poland and Germany and the rest of Europe , village by village , shtetl by shtetl , always moving west , America the ultimate goal , until he reached Cork . |
| 25 | Sacko , a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) official serving in the Central African Republic , had been Finance Minister for six months before resigning in August 1987 in protest at the unwillingness of Traoré 's government to support him in a drive against corruption [ see pp. 36085-86 ] . |
| 26 | Such was the excitement and focus on Maggie that in spite of Rose 's care to draw him into the conversation Moran began to feel out of it and grew bored . |
| 27 | It was something apparently irrelevant that had enough secret bearing on Albert 's situation to push him into action . |
| 28 | The kung fu practitioner uses his opponent 's strength to aid him in this task . |
| 29 | Milton was developing a certain respect for the Colonel 's ability to get him off the main point of the interview . |
| 30 | Then the Soviet authorities bowed to pressure and allowed the fiancée of Sakharov 's stepson to join him in the United States . |