Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 2 | Cocteau would have been delighted to introduce Modigliani to his world of the new couturiers and of Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , to help him to become a fashionable and popular portrait painter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Generally , however , they must have been concerned to persuade him to become an amenable ruler . |
| 7 | Try to persuade him to make a real effort to give up smoking — he may put on a bit of weight but he can tackle that later — and to eat frequent snacks throughout the day instead of two or three heavy meals . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Yeltsin did not win enough votes to enable him to call a new parliamentary election constitutionally . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Enough of him had , however , remained in the present to enable him to present a powerful case for the area 's preservation and to prophesy that the objectors would win . |
| 14 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |
| 15 | When a figure such as Duck , amenable , respectful and flattering in his gratitude came to be transplanted from his native Wiltshire to mingle with the best society of the land , his mentors no longer questioned his right to such an elevation , but were immediately at pains to educate him to become an inconspicuous unit in his new social caste . |
| 16 | According to the patient , she had made patently clear her refusal to allow him to perform a vaginal or rectal examination because of a history of child sexual abuse by her doctor father . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He called for new legislation to allow him to appoint a new justice in addition to each one who had reached the age of 70 ( up to a limit of six new justices ) . |
| 19 | This DC is the authority given by LIFESPAN to the user to allow him to update the new package . |
| 20 | ‘ This lady , ’ said Paviour , stepping aside to allow him to follow the mild gesture that indicated Charlotte , ‘ pulled you out . |
| 21 | He increased his speed until he was running flat out , buying a few seconds of precious time to allow him to find a good defence position . |
| 22 | And Durham force head Frank Taylor pledged that if he was successful in persuading the Home Office to allow him to recruit an extra 20 officers then all of them would be directly employed on the streets in the sub-divisions . |
| 23 | Durham Chief Constable Frank Taylor pledged that if he was successful in persuading the Home Office to allow him to recruit an extra 20 officers then all of them would be directly employed on the streets in the sub-divisions . |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend consider approaching the new Secretary-General to ask him to appoint a special representative to go to Myanmar ? |
| 25 | ‘ To ask him to sign a legal contract was ridiculous ’ , Paul Guillaume said . |
| 26 | Complaints from some neighbours have forced his landlord and the local council to ask him to find an alternative site . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 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 . |