Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis . |
| 2 | It will be seen that where Lautro is advised to serve or is considering the service of an intervention notice on a member , the rules do not place any obligation on it to give that member any advance warning of the intended action , nor to give him any opportunity to make representations before the intervention notice is served . |
| 3 | He persuaded creditors to give him three years to make a go of the garden . |
| 4 | All it 's done is to give him more money to gamble away up in London . |
| 5 | With the beginning of the 1947–8 season , John was transferred to the Sadler 's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden to give him more chances to work as a dancer with experienced choreographers . |
| 6 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 7 | You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme . |
| 8 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 9 | In order to get a patient actively involved in considering explanations for his behaviour it can be useful to offer him several possibilities to examine , especially if these include one or two explanations which are clearly unlikely and which he can easily refute . |