Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancer victim Alfred McTear , 48 , is suing Imperial Tobacco and his home became a temporary courtroom to enable him to give preliminary evidence for a court case he is unlikely to live long enough to see . |
| 2 | The stranger asked him to promise one thing : ‘ Do n't stay in the job for more than ten years , because you 'll get stale . |
| 3 | He suggested that the club expected him to score more points . |
| 4 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 5 | But the realization that his own civilization is extinguishing cultures of ‘ savages ’ possessed of coherent ways of living prompts him to demand that civilization be considered in no narrow perspective . |
| 6 | The exhibition not only demonstrated many old ideas , but also at least one new one — Mr Preshous ' original idea of hiring a light aeroplane to enable him to take aerial photographs of the route . |
| 7 | He was glad to have the equipment to enable him to read Greek and Latin . |
| 8 | His fundamentalist outlook led him to destroy Hindu temples across the empire . |
| 9 | The judge ordered him to do 120 hours community service , saying you wo n't do it again , I hope you can put it all behind you . |
| 10 | As I understand it , Kitto J. is saying that the mere availability to the payee of summary remedies for non-payment may amount to sufficient compulsion on the payer to entitle him to recover irrespective of whether the payee has given any indication that he proposes to exercise such remedies . |
| 11 | A steely ascetic renunciation marked his character , and Eusebius of Caesarea reports a tradition that in the zeal of youth he had subjected himself to castration to free him to instruct female pupils without scandal . |
| 12 | Neumann 's hanging on to a limited and personalized notion of what constitutes an Allegretto leads him to assume many things for which there is little foundation . |
| 13 | Once his attention was drawn to the bending , the child dismantled the tower but before he could rebuild it properly , the teacher challenged him to build another bent tower . |
| 14 | Casting enables him to ask all sorts of personal questions , which give him an insight into the kind of life that young , beautiful French actresses live . |
| 15 | A Maryland medical board ordered him to perform 100 hours of service in an Aids clinic . |
| 16 | A drop of scotch during occasional periods of self-criticism helped him to become happy with himself , but most of the time he was happy anyway . |
| 17 | As director of the British Museum ( Natural History ) from 1919 to 1927 , Harmer 's equanimity enabled him to have good relationships with the trustees and he steered the Museum smoothly through a difficult time with tact and judgement . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) A licensing board may grant an occasional permission to a person representing a voluntary organisation or a branch of a voluntary organisation authorising him to sell alcoholic liquor during such hours and on such day as the board may determine , in the course of catering for an event , arising from or related to the activities of the organisation , taking place outwith licensed premises . |
| 19 | It is also clear that Castro 's overriding concern with the security , both military and economic , of his revolution obliged him to conduct domestic policy with one eye on Moscow . |
| 20 | The grammar and lexicon oblige him to do this . |
| 21 | Gorbad 's wound causes him to become weaker and weaker , until the Waaagh gradually loses impetus . |
| 22 | The clergy , nobility and communes of Gascony and the Agenais sent Edward a petition urging him to refuse feudal services in the Aragonese war . |
| 23 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 24 | Take an example : Mrs. Jones telephones her coal merchant asking him to deliver six bags of coal . |
| 25 | Cam is denied the colour and glamour of Barbados as he is kept at work on a tally of the cargo as it is landed : later , a talk with the captain helps him to see this and other causes for resentment in a different light . |
| 26 | There 's some worry about something — either he 's not going to be able to do the work , someone 's going to laugh or has been laughing at him , he does n't think the teacher 's going to understand , and it 's generally a terrible problem first thing in the morning to get him to get ready and get to school . |
| 27 | ‘ I heard Alain this morning telling him to clear some dead timber . |
| 28 | Berkeley 's suggestion that particular , non-abstract ideas can be general in their use enables him to do this . |
| 29 | His skilful use of coloured wash , ink and wax crayon enabled him to combine topographical accuracy with a marvellously apt rendering of mood . |
| 30 | In all cases there are simple rights of appeal to the secretary of state to enable him to resolve any disputes between a district and a region . |