Example sentences of "[v-ing] he [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He conferred with Willys , who duly informed Thurloe of his whereabouts , having first warned Ormonde to change his lodgings , so enabling him to keep one jump ahead of the pursuit .
2 Len possessed that amazing ability that is sometimes found in footballers , to ‘ hang ’ in the air for a fraction of a second , so enabling him to obtain greater power and better direction from the ensuing header .
3 It was almost as though some supernatural force possessed him , causing him to shed twenty years ; his face lost much of the sunken look of recent times , and he went about his work with such youthful vigour that a stranger might have believed there were not one but several such figures pushing trolleys about the corridors of Darlington Hall .
4 Howard finally got his gun into position and fired one barrel at their original assailant , causing him to dive headlong back behind the palm tree .
5 Leading evangelist Jim Smith certainly thinks so , causing him to write three books on how the church can reach out and hold men .
6 Against an opponent who had bitten through his glove in their last fight , causing him to have seven stitches in the fist , he concentrated on punches to Carr 's mouth .
7 A letter written to Bush in early October by a group of 53 US senators , urging him to suspend economic assistance until the restoration of representative government in Pakistan , led an official Pakistani government spokesman on Oct. 22 to describe the senators as " a group opposed to the national interests of Pakistan " .
8 Archbishop Stratford , however , ignored several papal letters urging him to resist royal encroachments on alien priories .
9 The clergy , nobility and communes of Gascony and the Agenais sent Edward a petition urging him to refuse feudal services in the Aragonese war .
10 The suddenness of the announcement was judged to be in response to pressure from US environmentalists and to a letter presented to Collor from nine leading Democrat senators during the visit , urging him to honour previous promises he had given to protect the rain forest and its indigenous tribal peoples [ see p. 37528 ] .
11 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks .
12 A business man who claims his bank is forcing him to pay exorbitant charges has started a local campaign to force the banks to change their ways .
13 He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary .
14 10.28 : Persuaded P to get dressed and beat the clock — 3½ minutes , then back to coaxing him to finish some colouring .
15 What 's the betting this McCoy 's running a big racket , paying Charlie Hatton to leave his lorry unattended and paying him to keep other lorry drivers occupied whenever the chance presents itself ?
16 Anderson attempts a show of strength by using the IFID , " I demand " five times and " I insist " once , but his insecurity is indicated by the fact that he has to support his demands by asserting that he has the status permitting him to make these speech acts .
17 ‘ If that is what you want , Mr Reynolds , then I 'm sure David can be persuaded to leave with his family , ’ Beth told him icily ; though in fact she despaired of ever persuading him to leave this house .
18 So I am proposing with him to er undertake a fairly simple but comprehensive business of reading the bass clef , using the left hand , and introducing it into the kind of music that he already plays , and at the same time getting him to play other music as well , which he seems to be very happy .
19 At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague .
20 Take an example : Mrs. Jones telephones her coal merchant asking him to deliver six bags of coal .
21 Equally , no purpose would have been served by asking him to approach total strangers in the street , as the mere thought of this would have been so terrifying to the young man that he would probably have given up there and then .
22 Doleys and Arnold ( 1975 ) treated an 8-year-old mentally handicapped boy by encouraging him to copy another child and by reinforcing attempts to sit on the lavatory for longer periods .
23 He says to me when I 'm helping him to learn this rubbish : ‘ It 's not true , is it Grandad ? ’
24 James I did , on the specious excuse of the ransom due to England for his release ; James V blackmailed the papacy into allowing him to extort vast amounts of taxation from the church .
25 Earlier , Mr Justice Judge had ruled in the Manchester High Court that the terms of a temporary injunction be lifted , allowing him to show financial details of the club to his advisers .
26 True , his editor had taken the surprising step of allowing him to pursue this story all the way to London .
27 I hoped the white men were n't telling him to eliminate all witnesses because I do n't believe it would have needed much persuasion .
28 He was also a great friend of ACHILLES , whom he taught music and hunting ; according to ancient myth , Chiron taught Achilles to run so swiftly by setting him to chase wild deer and eat their raw flesh .
29 ( 1 ) A licensing board may grant an occasional licence to the holder of a licence authorising him to sell alcoholic liquor , during such hours and on such day as the board may determine , in the course of catering for an event taking place outwith the licensed premises in respect of which he is the holder of a licence .
30 ( 1 ) A licensing board may grant an occasional permission to a person representing a voluntary organisation or a branch of a voluntary organisation authorising him to sell alcoholic liquor during such hours and on such day as the board may determine , in the course of catering for an event , arising from or related to the activities of the organisation , taking place outwith licensed premises .
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