Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One presumes this was to help him keep the short ball down when it was bowled at the line of middle to leg stump . |
| 6 | He sat up alongside her , but she refused to look at him , refused to let him witness the wet film over her eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ Looks like it , ’ Sarella returned , trying not to let him get the better of her this time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And I must be on top to let him take the full force of the impact . |
| 10 | Noel Whelan had a very impressive first half ; I 'd be happy to see him start the next few matches . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | David Strang , whose South African-based Glaswegian parents were in Toronto to see him become the first Briton to win a world indoors 1,500m medal , also has a connection with the Boyle squad . |
| 13 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 14 | Although Harry tried to be tender and attentive at first , Ann sensed from the start that he did n't really love her , and that she would never be able to make him forget the great hurt he had suffered by losing Martha . |