Example sentences of "[vb past] him [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dismissed him to silence with a wave of a narrow , fleshless arm . |
| 2 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 3 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 4 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 5 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 6 | He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet . |
| 7 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
| 8 | But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 10 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 11 | Benjamin thanked the groom and told him to return to the chateau . |
| 12 | But Thomson was soon back in favour again , receiving instructions on the management of the impending war with Spain in the Caribbean from the Protector , who told him to liaise with the fleet commanders ( 1654 ) , and joining an enlarged trade committee ( 1655 ) . |
| 13 | I told him to surrender without the sugar . |
| 14 | On the third evening of the first week he sent one of his assistants into the dining hall and told him to get on the mike and chat to the campers/diners . |
| 15 | It told him to come to the court on a certain day to defend himself before a Commissioner and the man who said he owed him money . |
| 16 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 17 | What drove him to reach into the innermost part of his soul in search of the undiscovered ? |
| 18 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 19 | It caused him to scuttle to the edge of the path and roll into a ball . ’ |
| 20 | Berger 's race was ruined by electrically-related gearbox problems , which caused him to start from the pit lane , and then a resultant overheating engine , which caused his retirement after four laps . |
| 21 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 22 | Harry 's employer , Major Spofforth , was himself a golfer ; he recognized that the young man had skill , and encouraged him to persevere with the game . |
| 23 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 24 | In this context , Edward s assumption of the title and arms of Ring of France at Ghent in 1340 is of the utmost significance , for it allowed him to pose as an alternative government in France and attract the loyalty of those who for whatever reason were discontented with Valois rule . |
| 25 | But the almost mesmeric brilliance of Severiano Ballesteros first of all broke down what had appeared to be insurmountable barriers and then allowed him to charge through the gaps , devastating anything in his path . |
| 26 | Minton 's continuing involvement with the River Thames is also affirmed by his illustrations for John Herbert 's essay , ‘ London 's Port and River ’ , in the book Flower of Cities , published in 1949 , and which allowed him to draw upon a well-developed vocabulary , with freedom and confident mastery . |
| 27 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 28 | Guiding his entire policy was a sense of perspective , which allowed him to look beyond the immediate impasse and to visualize a future beyond Algeria . |
| 29 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 30 | They got the harness off him , and turned him to bleed into the grass rather than into his own throat . |