Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chemics have refused Hornets permission to play McKenzie in their Regal tie against French side Catalan to prevent him from being cup-tied . |
| 2 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 3 | It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire . |
| 4 | On Oct. 23 V. P. Singh ordered Advani to be arrested under the Internal Security Act to prevent him from entering Uttar Pradesh . |
| 5 | Kenny won nine full England International caps while he was a Palace player , with another eight for the Under 21 's and two for England B. He was our Player of the Year in both 1977 and 1979 , an ( l it took a record fee to take him to Arsenal in an exchange deal in 1980 , when he and Clive Allen were each valued at £1 million . |
| 6 | If Spurs decide to cash in on Durie , they will want at least their money back 16 months after paying a club record fee to lure him from Chelsea . |
| 7 | On the one hand he was supposedly an inferior being , with anti-social habits and disgusting personality traits ; on the other hand he possessed a superior intelligence and sufficient group solidarity to leave him on the verge of world domination . |
| 8 | Setting up a business was a different challenge and Stan , with help from the Scottish Development Agency also took a sixteen week course with The Scottish Business school to help him with the mechanics of being an employer , selling and marketing his fossils . |
| 9 | So , no doubt as a result of some string-pulling from Bletchley , Harold 's local recruiting office was instructed by the War Office to recruit him into the Intelligence Corps . |
| 10 | He renewed his passport in August 1939 , and travelled with his second wife to Berlin , where ( not without difficulty ) he pursued Josef Goebbels 's propaganda ministry to employ him as an editor and announcer for radio broadcasts in English . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ Maurin asked the taxi driver to take him to the museum yesterday . |
| 12 | This was a puzzlement , and he was glad he had the soothing spectacle of Midnight Mass to distract him from it . |
| 13 | She was in each morning like a circus trainer to put him through his routine . |
| 14 | Certainly , this seems more plausible than the story of Franco 's late arrival , which was almost certainly invented later as part of the propaganda campaign to present him as the powerful statesman for whom even Adolf Hitler would wait . |
| 15 | The last one-man show he ever held in London was staged at the Leger Gallery ( 1943 ) , and the only art school to accept him as a teacher was the Borough Polytechnic , where he taught part-time from 1945 to 1953 . |
| 16 | He apparently made his way north to Gdańsk and organised a merchant vessel to carry him to Finland . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've selected a midfield umbrella to protect him with players and said , ‘ look , this is your stage — now go and do it where it will really hurt the opposition ’ . |
| 18 | Due to such severe deprivation of mental stimulation , he had to continually wear an iron mask to prevent him from tearing strips off his own sides with his teeth . |
| 19 | At a time when managers in other companies worried about being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , the IBMer had his Career Manager to keep him in view . |
| 20 | During 1941 Hillary persuaded the Air Ministry to send him to the United States on a speaking tour . |
| 21 | He 's on hunger strike in protest at the Home Secretary refusal to move him to Cardiff gaol near his home at Treorky in mid-Glamorgan . |
| 22 | Bradley 's personally appointed police commission suspended Gates from office , only for the city council to return him to duty via the courts . |
| 23 | Attempts by the city council to force him from office had proved unsuccessful , and the process had been complicated by frequent changes of mind by Gates over when and whether he was willing to step down . |
| 24 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Watch the birdie PRESIDENT Mitterrand did not allow last week 's premiership crisis to deflect him from his usual Monday morning pastime : playing golf at St Cloud , near Paris . |
| 25 | Eva had been selected as youth speaker to welcome him to Brisbane that very weekend . |
| 26 | Wright has not played for England since the European Championship game against Holland 18 months ago but Robson has been sufficiently impressed by his League form to recall him to the squad . |
| 27 | AUTOBUS ( Artificial Eye ) Overlooked Eric Rochant film about a ‘ sentimental terrorist ’ who kidnaps a school bus to take him to his girl , Charlotte Gainsbourg . |
| 28 | A simple tale of a teenager ( Yvan Attal , near left ) who hijacks a school bus to take him to his girl in another town , it is also a complex allegory of Love versus the Law . |
| 29 | AUTOBUS Post-New Wave whizz-kid Eric Rochant follows A World Without Pity with a trip to the French provinces , where a passionate youth quietly dying of smalltown boredom hijacks a school bus to take him to his girl , Charlotte Gainsbourg . |
| 30 | A £500,000 budget has been set aside to create a press office to represent him in Brussels , in addition to Dublin 's existing one . |