Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 2 | There were few French wars in which the de Castelnau clan had not distinguished itself ; there had been a General de Castelnau under the great Napoleon , and another had been selected by Louis Napoleon to accompany him into exile after the dismal capitulation at Sedan . |
| 3 | And Garbett wanted Ramsey to succeed him at York . |
| 4 | He sent for Eleanor to join him in Normandy and when she arrived , a message went to Richard , requiring him to surrender Aquitaine to his mother , the lawful duchess . |
| 5 | Time and again Lear tried to tempt Gould to visit him in Rome ; always he pleaded for a letter : ‘ I am anxious to hear from you … ; |
| 6 | The Prior of Lewes , Robert Peterson , collected a number of cathedral offices around England to keep him in comfort . |
| 7 | KEVIN MORAN today urged Irish pal Roy Keane to join him at Blackburn Rovers . |
| 8 | Realising that the only way he could possibly fulfil his considerable potential was by going abroad , James accepted the invitation offered by the famous cricketer Learie Constantine to join him in Nelson , Lancashire . |
| 9 | What had changed was two things , one that the governor of the state had talked about defying the court rather than actually do it and secondly , that Eisenhower had summoned Forbus to see him at Camp David , the president 's summer retreat in Maryland , and had a weekend of talks with Forbus Now I was n't there , I was at primary school then , but I was n't there as far as one can piece it together what , what Eisenhower said to Forbus was , you know , I do n't really care what you do , but I do n't want it on prime time national television , I do n't want a scene , I do n't want you to flagrantly , openly , publicly to flout the order of the court . |
| 10 | Prior to Dinh 's visit there had been other indications that relations were improving ; the Vietnamese , for instance , had allowed the family of top-level Vietnamese defector Hoang Van Hoan to visit him in Beijing [ see p. 29876 for Hoan 's defection in 1979 ] . |
| 11 | And of course we 're pleased as Punch to put him in print again . |
| 12 | Backed by Albanian regiments he manoeuvred skilfully in the struggles between Turks and mamluks and after imprisoning the Turkish governor in 1805 , persuaded Istanbul to recognise him as Egypt 's sultan . |
| 13 | Britain 's longest-serving unconvicted prisoner , Lorrain Esme Osman , who has spent nearly four years in custody pending attempts by Hong Kong to extradite him on fraud charges , asked the High Court to rule that he was being held unlawfully . |
| 14 | Welshman Jackson , who finished just one-hundredth of a second outside his European record with a 7.42sec run in Sindelfingen last weekend , will have his Cardiff lodger , Canadian Olympic champion Mark McKoy , and America 's former double Olympic gold medallist Roger Kingdom to push him towards Greg Foster 's 7.36sec mark . |
| 15 | Moral education in the Catholic School is intimately connected to Religious Education because fundamental to both is the personal call of Jesus to follow him as Lord and Saviour in the everyday events of life . |
| 16 | Unable to carry the rest of the council with him , Joe Esseff would later resign the chairmanship of the CLAO in disgust , but meanwhile , on 3 March , he took Coleman to Paris to introduce him to Aoun 's senior advisers . |
| 17 | Earlier yesterday Mr Denktash , who heads a breakaway state in the north recognised only by Ankara , invited Mr Clerides to meet him in Cyprus and said holding talks in New York would be futile . |
| 18 | The Camel Benetton Ford driver was outraged at the tactics used by Senna to keep him at bay for several laps . |
| 19 | It was not known last night if any of the royals would travel from Balmoral to watch him in action . |
| 20 | Presentation Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the Temple to present him to God as required by Jewish law ( Exodus 13:1–16 ) . |
| 21 | Ine did not allow the displeasure of Canterbury at his failure to agree to a partition of the diocese of Winchester to drive him into action on the matter , despite threats of excommunication . |
| 22 | He sat gazing into space , his unblinking stare which had compelled Harold Macmillan to shift him in Cabinet so as to avoid what he took for continual rebuke , unbroken by the throng that pressed about him . |
| 23 | Mr Major sent his chief policy adviser Sarah Hogg to represent him at No 11 while he tucked in to shepherd 's pie and Krug champagne at the Archers ' riverside flat . |
| 24 | Lemos resigned on March 25 , allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges . |
| 25 | He 'd last eaten about four hours earlier , in the same small cafe where he 'd got Slater to tell him about Sara that January . |
| 26 | " No skin off my nose , " said Alexander , who veered between the absurdly avuncular , the undignified childish — and something else — whenever he allowed Frederica to trap him into talk . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that Gloucester needed Hastings to prod him into action , although if Mancini is even partially correct it would be significant that the duke 's view of events in London was coming from so biased a source . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that Gloucester needed Hastings to prod him into action , although if Mancini is even partially correct it would be significant that the duke 's view of events in London was coming from so biased a source . |
| 29 | Duncan must have been the mountain man of the day , for the previous year he had been engaged by the Revd C. Lessingham Smith to take him from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk , climbing in Hata Corrie on the way . |