Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seller will normally send by air to the buyer some documents : one will be the bill of lading transferred to the buyer to enable him to collect the goods at their port of destination ; another will be a bill of exchange which the buyer will normally sign and return thereby undertaking to pay for the goods on the date specified on the bill of exchange . |
| 2 | Where customary , the seller must give sufficient information to the buyer to enable him to insure the goods whilst in transit by sea , section 32(3) . |
| 3 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 4 | Nkrumah announced another referendum to enable him to dismiss the judges and also to establish a one-party state . |
| 5 | It can not be doubted that the constable was ‘ on duty ’ when he stopped the cyclist , and he was no doubt under some sort of obligation to stop the cyclist to enable him to bring the defendant before the court ultimately . |
| 6 | It seems that the main annalist 's fondness for tales of woe in this case led him to distort the facts , or that he was misled by sources which did so . |
| 7 | It is no secret that there was great division among Transvaal administrators in releasing Rice from his contract to enable him to join the Channel 9 TV commentary team for the World Cup that clashed with the latter stages of the South African season . |
| 8 | Until the internal combustion engine was fully ‘ harnessed ’ in the middle of this century , man depended upon the heavy horse to enable him to reap the fruits of his innovations . |
| 9 | Peach had an intuitive genius for discerning geological structures : what he saw on a mountainside led him to visualize the arrangement of the rocks below . |
| 10 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 11 | In courteously making a special journey to Beeching 's home to induce him to accept the invitation , Gardiner incurred the Prime Minister 's displeasure : Dr Beeching should have been invited to call on the Lord Chancellor . |
| 12 | David Allen was so devoted to his project he dared take Lord Hanson to court , where the judge ordered him to destroy the weir he built on the river Winterbourne in Berkshire . |
| 13 | At a public inquiry in March , Mr Fenney appealed against three enforcement notices issued by Warrington Borough Council requiring him to reduce the size of the driving range . |
| 14 | He was never a precise golfer in the mould of Hogan , but his magnificent tactical management enabled him to calculate the exact odds in moments of high tension . |
| 15 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 16 | A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record . |
| 17 | He conveniently forgot that before he could do this , the law obliged him to seek the opinion of France 's data protection commission . |
| 18 | The adoption of the italic script by many schools and a wider interest in the reform of handwriting encouraged him to initiate the founding of the Society for Italic Handwriting in 1952 , with a director of education , Joseph Compton , as chairman ; it soon had more than 500 members . |
| 19 | The President 's obsession with security led him to authorize the wire-tapping of government employees , while Liddy and Hunt , part of the Watergate burglary team , illegally entered the offices of a psychiatrist who had treated Daniel Ellsberg , the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press , in order to steal his medical records . |
| 20 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |
| 21 | A ruler is bound by the good old law ; if he breaks it in any serious way , his subjects can rebel , and by formal process compel him to obey the law . |
| 22 | Scott 's urgent pleas to the Prince Regent , the future King George IV , had resulted in a Royal Warrant permitting him to open the sealed Crown Room in search of the Scottish crown , sceptre and sword of state — the ancient Honours of Scotland , locked away since 1707 following the Treaty of Union . |
| 23 | And why did n't the policeman want him to see the suite ? |
| 24 | The court allowed him to write the address on a piece of paper , rather than state it publicly . |
| 25 | He means ‘ sell ’ , but etiquette leads him to avoid the word . |
| 26 | The Queen gave Mr Major an urgent message on Tuesday night asking him to tell the nation . |
| 27 | The status which it gave him as a disinherited lord led him to oppose the Anglo-Scottish truce of 1323 and helped to persuade him to turn his coat shortly afterwards . |
| 28 | Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round . |
| 29 | These photographs — ‘ my life 's blood ’ — are pinned to his bench enabling him to check the size and configuration of the newly-carved elements . |
| 30 | 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 . |