Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karadzic , apparently encouraged by the new international policy announced in Washington , not only invited Bosnian Muslim and Croat leaders to meet him to discuss a settlement but he also challenged the Muslims to a soccer match . |
| 2 | He tended to come behind the bit , so I wanted a fixed bit to encourage him to take a contact rather than a loose ring one . |
| 3 | I was appalled to find him investing a portion of our diminutive budget in some sixty bowls . |
| 4 | ‘ And he still refuses to accept he has a problem ? ’ |
| 5 | In his letter asking Theo to come he mentioned a novel of Dickens , Hard Times , as one which had particularly impressed him . |
| 6 | In an attempt to compensate he forced a smile . |
| 7 | These could , probably more easily in early , rather than in later man , have been powerful enough to cause him to seek a substitute for his natural father or mother when they were no longer available to him , and he was in need . |
| 8 | Paddy Cosgrove , his likely replacement , is a council hack of 21 years standing and ideal backbench fodder , though it is hard to imagine him leading a crusade for Meadowell . |
| 9 | He wants residents to help him gather a mountain of cans , aluminium or tin , to be recycled on May 6 . |
| 10 | Mr O'Donnell said he had agreed to go with McPherson on the night of his ordeal to help him steal a van from Tarbert . |
| 11 | To help him find a buyer , he enlisted the help of one Robin ‘ Danny ’ Ford , a bartender with a side-line in insurance and real estate . |
| 12 | And so , wrote Jimmy Carter , rather casually , " I asked Cy to scout around to help him find a place to stay . " |
| 13 | If that had been the case , then he could at least have received finance in the eighties when rich and influential independent figures such as Steven Spielberg , Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty — all of whom professed admiration for Welles — had the chance to help him get a film financed and passed . |
| 14 | I can see that the third party would have a cogent argument that even if he were liable to compensate the plaintiffs in respect of these matters it would not be just and equitable to require him to make a contribution to the third defendant 's liability . |
| 15 | Ever since the happy visit of the year before , I had been trying to persuade him to pay a second and , if possible , longer visit . |
| 16 | These somewhat academic findings are not very helpful to the mother whose child has begged her to let him watch a gangster film or to buy him a plastic ‘ death-ray gun ’ for Christmas . |
| 17 | pure , pure and simply to let him get a sleep . |
| 18 | Er you want to let him have a look |
| 19 | Turning to leave he saw a jiffy-bag of formidable bulk addressed to himself in Sixsmith 's tremulous hand . |
| 20 | In Parliament two days later , Paisely asked James Prior , leader of the House of Commons , to permit him to make a statement to the House on the matter . |
| 21 | It 's simply that I 'm not prepared to see him branded a fraud and a charlatan merely in order to prolong your receipt of them . |
| 22 | I long to see him become a Giant . |
| 23 | They came almost in ignorance of an often sublime short game — the big attraction was to see him smash a golf ball further than anyone else in the world and their adulation proved his undoing . |
| 24 | Would any man who was obviously a pathological criminal be allowed his freedom so soon to enable him to continue a career of sexual violence ? |
| 25 | At times it was blatant , as when the sheriff of Hampshire , presumably in order to enable him to settle a debt at the Exchequer , borrowed £61 12s. 8d. , paying ‘ for each pound 2d. in interest a week ’ . |
| 26 | The first is that since the person against whom the powers are being improperly exercised is entitled to resist such use , he is in principle entitled to know sufficient to enable him to make a judgment about whether it would be right to do so . |
| 27 | They agreed to release him as an uncontested registration to enable him to find a county where he could hope for greater opportunities , and although we ca n't guarantee a first-team place , he 'll get plenty of chances if he does the business . |
| 28 | He has mentioned his intestate heir , and this is sufficient to allow him to claim a trust exists in his favour . |
| 29 | He was also very curious and begged Ted to allow him to have a look round . |
| 30 | He broke with BSDI in November , he says , but not before Usenix mysteriously refused to allow him to present a paper on his 386 work and BSDI offered to cut him in — in return for the title to his house . |