Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His introduction to the greater world during his London visit was important in shaping his liberal sympathies , and when he returned to Stowey in March 1791 , his relatives were shocked to find him overflowing with French Revolutionary politics as well as other democratic heresies . |
| 2 | If the patient has perceptual problems , it is useful to draw or tape a line down the centre of his personal table , to help him differentiate between left and right . |
| 3 | And certain things are going to happen in his body to help him to cope with that situation . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't worry , Mr Jarvis has got a huge man to help him deal with that problem . |
| 5 | It made me sad to hear him speak like that ; he did n't seem to understand that was all I wanted to do . |
| 6 | At Mr Banzer 's closing rally in La Paz , many Bolivians defied the cold to hear him call for higher taxes on the rich and more efficiency in government : ‘ We will tighten the government 's belt and loosen the belt on the people . ’ |
| 7 | Mortimer swore that he intended no harm to Lancaster , and the Bishops of Winchester and London were sent to persuade him to attend after all . |
| 8 | ‘ Either you increase my husband 's wages to reflect the work he does on your behalf , or I might find it my duty to persuade him to look for other employment , perhaps with one of the many property owners hereabouts . ’ |
| 9 | He seems to be playing really well at the moment and to let him go at this stage would be killing shooting ourselves in the foot . |
| 10 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 11 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 12 | With the older boys there are times when leave them alone is the very best policy , you can intrude too much on a pupil who knows what he 's doing ; maybe not doing it 100 per cent successfully , but you 've got to let him get to that point of destruct , as part of his learning process … |
| 13 | Jaq switched on the magnetics in his boots to give him purchase for possible combat . |
| 14 | The injury is likely to keep him sidelined for two months . |
| 15 | He was genuinely keen to return to St Augustine 's where his sister was now a pupil and both social work and child guidance were keen to see him return to mainstream schooling . |
| 16 | ‘ It 'll soon be dark and then we wo n't be able to see him coming at all . ’ |
| 17 | A major reason for a manager to understand something about statistics ( and to overcome his fear of numbers ) is to enable him to cope with other managers who use this method of proving a point or presenting a case . |
| 18 | The problem this poses for the educationalist is formidable because , as well as designing curricula that will help the surveyor cope with future changes , he has also to provide the basis of a training experience to enable him to cope with contemporary practice . |
| 19 | The purpose of the application is to allow him to die through natural causes which , it was thought , would take two weeks at most . |
| 20 | The Democrats had no obvious candidate once Teddy Kennedy had decided that Chappaquiddick was too close to allow him to run in 1976 . |
| 21 | Because he was frail it was thought unwise to allow him to mix with other children or to spend time out of doors , and in consequence he became an avid reader . |
| 22 | Schofield , who had threatened legal action to force Leeds to allow him to play for Manly in the close season , revealed : ‘ Manly have withdrawn their offer in view of the problems . ’ |
| 23 | What we really want to do is to get him to respond to some of our press releases and to comment from his perspective of what the press is actually looking for . |
| 24 | 108 ) , and Pleistoanax 's supporters waited twenty-six years to get him recalled in 420 , which they did by bribing the oracle in the best archaic tradition . |
| 25 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 26 | ( i ) Does the applicant have a sufficient interest within R.S.C. , Ord. 53 , r. 3(7) to entitle him to apply for judicial review ? ( ii ) Is the exercise by Lautro of its power to serve an intervention notice subject to judicial review ? ( iii ) Is , or was , Winchester a member of Lautro ? ( iv ) Whether or not Winchester was a member of Lautro , did it have a right to appeal under Lautro 's rules to the Appeal Tribunal ? ( v ) Did the failure by Lautro to give Winchester an opportunity to make representations before the service of the intervention notice invalidate that notice so that it should be quashed ? |
| 27 | Obviously , it is in their interests to have him perceived in such a way . |
| 28 | The Long Parliament tried to have him restored in 1641–2 , but without effect , and from 1644 onwards Sir Edmond Prideaux [ q.v. ] , later attorney-general under the Commonwealth , was somewhat precariously ensconced as postmaster-general . |
| 29 | Michael 's now planning to visit the Amazon himself , instead of having to depend he says on other people 's accounts . |
| 30 | You may already have written to Mr Popham to ask him to act in this way . |