Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , their nine-year-old son , Justin , did n't want to conform to his parents minimalist style , so they let him choose his own furniture from Habitat . |
| 2 | He nearly had a nervous breakdown so they made him go to Plumford . |
| 3 | Stuart wondered if they made him stand out there , or if he chose to . |
| 4 | Because they let him pick them up . |
| 5 | Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go . |
| 6 | In public , three times a week , he held a solemn consistory — which had previously fallen into disuse — in which he deputed the examination of lesser cases to others , while the major ones he dealt with himself so subtly and wisely that all wondered at his precision and skill and many educated and legally-learned men came to the Roman Church to hear him and they learnt more in his consistories than they had learnt in the schools , especially when they heard him give sentence . |
| 7 | Great joy had Doña Ximena and her daughters , who were awaiting him , when they saw him come riding in ; and he stopt when he came to them , and said , Great honour have I won for you , while you kept Valencia this day ! |
| 8 | As Archbishop he was indecisive ; there were contemporaries who could have provided stouter leadership , as they let him know . |
| 9 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 10 | He looked suspicious at first , and so did the Japanese waiters as they helped him pull his tuba case through the very narrow doorway . |