Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 2 | , who had felt perfectly well , was astonished to discover he had the early stages of tuberculosis . |
| 3 | The handsome youngster was a flirt and a rebel-rouser at school but mostly he was a clown who craved affection — anything to help him forget the loveless days when he watched his drunkard father beat up his mother . |
| 4 | He then calculates estimated sales , co-ordinates with his production department so the product is made in the right volume , and enlists the help of advertising and other specialist services , such as sales promotion and public relations , to help him achieve the projected sales . |
| 5 | For the next few weeks the male passes food for his entire family through this hole until the female breaks the wall down and leaves the hole to help him collect the increasing quantity of food demanded by the growing chicks . |
| 6 | He unlocked a padlock into a smallish barn — the key was in the padlock waiting — and got her to help him push the wooden doors back . |
| 7 | One presumes this was to help him keep the short ball down when it was bowled at the line of middle to leg stump . |
| 8 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 9 | We began by talking politics , which he enjoyed doing with someone not out to convert him to socialism — then , as now , the established faith of most intellectuals — and , referring to A. L. Rowse 's fervent attempts , the first of many , to persuade him to join the Labour Party , he flung wide his arms and said : ‘ I refuse to be tied down to allegiances of this kind . ’ |
| 10 | It was Guy fitzAlan 's task to deliver Stephen 's invitation to de Tracy and to persuade him to accept the inevitable — if such persuasion was necessary . |
| 11 | He sat up alongside her , but she refused to look at him , refused to let him witness the wet film over her eyes . |
| 12 | I took that part to mean about trust between him and the board , ie he trusted them to let him have the final say etc etc . |
| 13 | And I must be on top to let him take the full force of the impact . |
| 14 | Hill , chasing his third successive Formula One victory , finished with a best time 1:21.491 , to leave him sharing the front row of the grid with Prost , whose pole was the 32nd of his career . |
| 15 | The Minister wished to revoke them only to ensure he obtained the expected revenue from the increased cost . |
| 16 | It was also nice to see him give the young girl who had drawn his winning number a £20.00 note as a way of saying thank you . |
| 17 | A young , green horse will be weak but if worked correctly will gradually build up the necessary muscle to enable him to perform the required movements . |
| 18 | Also , with Bush committed to opposing both bills , Republicans in Congress were anxious to enable him to avoid the political embarrassment of vetoing them just before the presidential election . |
| 19 | 1.59 The third ground for defending an application is that the defendant from whom the interim payment is sought is not a person who appears to the court to fall within one of the categories listed in Ord 29 , r11(2) , namely : ( a ) a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim ; ( b ) a public authority ; or ( c ) a person whose means and resources are such as to enable him to make the interim payment . |
| 20 | For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish . |
| 21 | However , by retaining his flexibility of action the Secretary of State has drafted the Bill so as to allow him to weaken the necessary protections . |
| 22 | This DC is the authority given by LIFESPAN to the user to allow him to update the new package . |
| 23 | ‘ This lady , ’ said Paviour , stepping aside to allow him to follow the mild gesture that indicated Charlotte , ‘ pulled you out . |
| 24 | Milton , the provost believed , should write to the collector of customs to have him tell the threatened tide waiter that he was in no danger , and at the same time secure an order for Main to cross to West Lothian for a few days , around the time of the burgh elections , in order to get him out of the way , for the election of the deacon of the wrights would turn on this single vote . |
| 25 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |
| 26 | She went to her GP to ask him to prescribe the oral contraceptive and , before he prescribed the pill , he examined her thoroughly , including a vaginal examination . |
| 27 | CARING schoolmates of leukaemia victim Mark Lowry are going bald to stop him feeling the odd man out . |
| 28 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 29 | Erm but on the other hand and so it 's valid to say he represents the American dream yeah ? |
| 30 | An alien terrorist organisation called Gamma 693 took the opportunity to inflict damage on the Terran empire , sending space mines and debris to prevent him reaching the afflicted planet . |