Example sentences of "him to get [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Beattie tried to hold evangelistic meetings in Hillsborough , he found the Church of Ireland aristocracy who controlled the parish council using planning laws to make it difficult for him to get a site . |
| 2 | He held his foster-brother away from him to get a good look at him . |
| 3 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 4 | If he was there , some social worker person would help him to get a flat or a bedsitter or something . |
| 5 | ‘ When I walked into the studio Blixa had his body miked up and they were punching him to get a bass drum beat . |
| 6 | The listener is human , so allow him to get a word in edgeways ; he too may have a point of view . |
| 7 | Both said the police paid scant attention to Mr Mackenzie 's ill-health , only allowing him to get a jacket at his wife 's insistence . |
| 8 | My brother-in-law began setting up our platform , and I made the mistake of telling him to get a move on . |
| 9 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 10 | Guessing correctly that Bobby was hard up , Bacon gave him £5 and told him to get a meal at Wheeler 's . |
| 11 | I was torn between wanting him to get a doctor , and wanting him with me . |
| 12 | In fact it was she who had advised him to get a second opinion on the matter , from a lawyer . |
| 13 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 14 | so the most-talked-about terrace-player gets another half-page over here — if Frank play well in the US that might make it easier for him to get a new club . |
| 15 | Maybe we should tell him to get a modem & subscribe so that he can get some real electronic info ? |
| 16 | She had expected him to get a water-taxi , but he turned right and walked along the fondamenta , matching his stride to her slower pace . |
| 17 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 18 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 19 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 20 | I really wanted him to get the job . |
| 21 | ‘ I asked him to get the UFO files opened . ’ |
| 22 | Sometimes the Captain caught him staring at him fixedly , willing him to get the case under Instruction . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's the bastard trying to do , Nurse Dungarvan ? ’ he mumbled as Dr Curtis tried to listen to his chest ‘ Tell him to get the hell out of it . ’ |
| 24 | It was after this that Vere Barker , his rather grand agent , helped him to get the house in Hampstead and began to up his fees even for radio — for which he continued to work — poems , plays , schools radio , £10 , £12 , £20 sometimes : it all totted up . |
| 25 | She empowered him to get the tank , the section of drainpipe , the guttering . |
| 26 | If I did believe in God , I 'd pray to Him to get the marquis to come . " |
| 27 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 28 | We 'll need him to get the neural network back on line . ’ |
| 29 | I began to calm down but for all that I wanted ! him to get the message . |
| 30 | We do n't want him to get the wind , do we ? |