Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both said the police paid scant attention to Mr Mackenzie 's ill-health , only allowing him to get a jacket at his wife 's insistence . |
| 2 | These could , probably more easily in early , rather than in later man , have been powerful enough to cause him to seek a substitute for his natural father or mother when they were no longer available to him , and he was in need . |
| 3 | Reason tells him he is mad to want to continue farming , but the desire to do so leads him to rationalise the decision as best he can . |
| 4 | ‘ I think they will if you can get the Old Man to twist the Khedive 's arm enough to persuade him to withdraw the levy . ’ |
| 5 | The listener is human , so allow him to get a word in edgeways ; he too may have a point of view . |
| 6 | Although his commitments and the size of his salary only allow him to pay the £15 monthly premium rather than a higher amount , he regards DOUBLE PAYMENT as a very low-cost way to both save the future and guarantee a large cash sum for his family if they have to claim . |
| 7 | Well I 'm only asking him to lift the bags . |
| 8 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
| 9 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 10 | Would any man who was obviously a pathological criminal be allowed his freedom so soon to enable him to continue a career of sexual violence ? |
| 11 | No I just told him to revise the er the cycle of the engine . |
| 12 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 13 | Marrying Sukey had admittedly enabled him to buy a string of cracking ponies and build a much-envied yard , but he was increasingly irked by the curbs on his freedom . |
| 14 | In our opinion his health will no longer enable him to sustain the heavy burdens inseparable from the office of Prime Minister . |
| 15 | On June 28 , he suffered a major setback when the lower house voted by 283 votes to 100 , with nine abstentions , to overrule his veto , thus requiring him to sign the bill into law within six days . |
| 16 | I desperately wanted him to see the right ‘ way to go ’ . |
| 17 | Suddenly she desperately wanted him to know the truth . |
| 18 | He 's going to see the Colonel tonight to tell him to take a month 's leave after he 's been discharged from hospital . ’ |
| 19 | He had never understood why Morse almost always expected him to buy the beer . |
| 20 | In the course of their many arguments , Amanda once asked him to consider the domestic condition of the Fergusson family , who lived together with strong bonds of affection , and declare whether they too were the consequence of chaos , hazard and malice . |
| 21 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 22 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 23 | Always ask him to have a go first , so that children come to you with a word already written . |
| 24 | ‘ This lady , ’ said Paviour , stepping aside to allow him to follow the mild gesture that indicated Charlotte , ‘ pulled you out . |
| 25 | Notwithstanding an iffy technique against spin you would still back him to take the attack to Pakistan ahead of the brat pack snapping at his heels . |
| 26 | My mother was always telling him to measure the right amount with the cap of the bottle , but it was n't his style . |
| 27 | This exercise is valuable not only to enable the draftsman to produce a set of conditions which is most to the advantage of his client ( whether his client be buyer or seller ) , but also to enable him to understand the motivation of the other side when he is in negotiation with their advisers . |
| 28 | His penal thinking was an application of his general philosophy that law and government should pursue ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ , which logically led him to espouse a purely reductivist approach to punishment , with no place for retributivism of any description . |
| 29 | Guppy later told him to close the account because of worries about possible criminal action . |
| 30 | It also allowed him to include a wide range of ‘ non-sacred ’ ideas and images which colour our lives from the cradle to the grave , not least those of loving and sexuality . |