Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] him [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The powers that be in MI5 , by the way , believed enough in Mills being a KGB agent to offer him immunity from prosecution in exchange for confession and cooperation . |
| 2 | Eventually , the passenger felt confident enough of his new friend in the driving seat to tell him jokes about the regime , culminating in obscene calumnies of Elena Ceauşescu . |
| 3 | President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo , 84 , declared on Feb. 27 that the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , which he had formed in 1964 , should elect a new leader to allow him time for other commitments . |
| 4 | But out of pity for Bouchard 's poverty , Geoffrey prevailed on the abbot to allow him possession of the mill for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | Lucky old Shelley — the first woman to meet him face to face . ’ |
| 6 | The most likely explanation was her offer to buy him dinner in return for the loan of the flat . |
| 7 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 8 | It had been a mistake on her part to appoint him chairman of the Party in the 1980s , the twin conditions of the appointment being , as she remembered , the removal of his ‘ dreadful ’ beard and the dropping of the ‘ Selwyn ’ . |
| 9 | More likely in case he should go along the road to ease him self on Alice Mulcahy . |
| 10 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 11 | Finally , the bodies created by Sir Keith Joseph — the School Curriculum Development Committee and the Secondary Examinations Council — would be replaced by a National Curriculum Council and a School Examinations and Assessment Council , both appointed by the Secretary of State , with responsibility to offer him advice on the national curriculum and its assessment . |
| 12 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 13 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 14 | Every other paper one picked up had something either about his ancestors or his own latest piece of rabble-rousing — It was a stroke of genius by the Prime Minister to make him Minister of Fine Arts , where he could shout his head off and do little real harm . |
| 15 | Whatever the origin of the revolt , by early 1183 it had been transformed into a struggle to make him Duke of Aquitaine in place of the " tyrannical " Richard . |
| 16 | She gave him that chill , remote look which she now knew infuriated him , and felt a fierce satisfaction to see him struggle for self-control . |