Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | DOCTORS played TV host Leslie Crowther his favourite classical music tapes yesterday to help him recover from a coma . |
| 2 | Jeremy Ring , or Jez as he likes to be called , has started receiving physiotherapy to help him recover from a motorbike accident . |
| 3 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 4 | Not all the other dancers were in sympathy with the intellectual attitudes of John and his friends , either , but he needed all the intellectual stimulation he could get because , although his work as a dancer was meant to help him develop as a choreographer , the repertory was far from ideal for that purpose . |
| 5 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 6 | The Leeds manager , I understand , was only too happy to let him go after a month of turmoil at Elland Road which culminated in a walk-out last weekend by the flamboyant Frenchman when left out of the Arsenal game . |
| 7 | The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him . |
| 8 | Deane and Rodders up front again I du n no I 'd like to see him try for a goal poacher or someone like Ferds . |
| 9 | It was 03.17 and I was just in time to see him climb into a waiting car and drive off . |
| 10 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 11 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 12 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 13 | They will not tell you a lot about what 's going to make him tick as an adult , except that he might be good at a particular academic subject . ’ |