Example sentences of "[prep] him [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was typical of him to choose this pub . |
| 2 | ‘ Was n't it unwise of him to keep open house like that , with direct access to his office from a back lane ? ’ |
| 3 | I went back in with him to hoist this load , and the altar lamp was still bright . |
| 4 | She bent with him to examine troubled roots , spotted leaves , patchy bark . |
| 5 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 6 | Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence . |
| 7 | Do you have confidence in him to conduct this operation ? |
| 8 | By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 . |
| 9 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 10 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 11 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 12 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 13 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 14 | Anthony , predictably enough Julia thought , decided that his patients needed him too much for him to take any kind of holiday over the Easter weekend , but he made no objection to David 's formal request to take Julia away to stay with his mother . |
| 15 | Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer . |
| 16 | Besides , sometimes a person 's consent to a right or benefit is required for him to acquire that right or a benefit . |
| 17 | He looked at Bigwig , as though waiting for him to ask another question . |
| 18 | It was not enough for him to call individual sinners to God . |
| 19 | Even he had definite symptomatic and endoscopic benefit from additional radiotherapy and his general conditioned improved enough for him to undergo successful surgery . |
| 20 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 21 | But mind you , according to some people it was virtually impossible for him to beget any bastards , but still . |
| 22 | Oh it 'd be better for him to put that fire on at night time and go over in the morning and switch it off . |
| 23 | He shouted at me so I sat under the table and waited for him to put some food down . |
| 24 | It was n't easy for him to make new friends , particularly outside of whatever cast list he was currently a part , but occasionally it happened — as during the run of One Over The Eight . |
| 25 | For him to make that sort of joke on the recording was in keeping with the impression Charles was beginning to form of his character . |
| 26 | As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal . |
| 27 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 28 | She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’ |
| 29 | However it might be expecting a lot for him to win four races and it could be that Simon Beck , who starred at the TT , will score his first Irish success . |
| 30 | The Minister of State is not yet the Foreign Secretary and there is little time left for him to become Foreign Secretary . |