Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’ |
| 2 | A CLEVELAND fireman is appealing against a decision to transfer him from Thornaby fire station to his home town of Billingham . |
| 3 | You pay a forfeit to put him in that race . |
| 4 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 5 | There was no other option as the Hurseys live in a known highrisk parvovirus area and carrying around a Great Dane puppy in a blanket to acclimatise him to street life — as one might with Yorkshire terrier pup — is hardly practical AND needs a very large owner ! |
| 6 | I stated my views to Lord Stanley as fully as I could , but I fear that the Exchequer is not in a condition to enable him to second my views , 1 think you will do me the credit to say that if any man can organize an Expedition for interior research I can , and that there are few if any here more qualified from experience for such a task . |
| 7 | Mr Yeltsin 's aides have said he would ignore a vote to remove him by the Congress , which was elected before the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 11 | Monaco despatched a scout to trail him at Bournemouth the following week , and they will use the next couple of days to decide whether to gamble on bringing Lambert to Europe 's gambling capital . |
| 12 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 13 | Time for the same man to complete his work in Finland , then catch a plane to London and hire a car to take him to Suffolk . |
| 14 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |
| 15 | So the film company organized a car to take him from Reading to Pangbourne . |
| 16 | KEVIN KEEGAN has had secret talks with Newcastle directors in a bid to keep him at St James 's Park . |
| 17 | A frog asked a princess to take him to bed with her so that he could turn into a fairy prince . |
| 18 | An advancement means a sum of money paid to a child to start him in business or to make a permanent provision for him ; it does not include casual payments given as a present or to help to tide over temporary difficulties . |
| 19 | He had a council to advise him on these policy decisions , and he and his council recognized the great similarity between the powers of the assembly and those of the House of Commons in passing laws and imposing new taxes . |
| 20 | It is unfortunate that the confirmation of Æthelric of Bocking 's will , with its reference to a plan to receive him in Essex perhaps as early as 991 , gives no further details . |
| 21 | In Donaghy [ 1981 ] Crim LR 644 ( Crown Court ) , the accused ordered a taxi-driver to take him from Newmarket to London and made threats to his life . |
| 22 | EXPLORER Gerald Kingsland , 62 — who inspired the film Castaway — has had scores of replies to an ad for a girl to join him on an island . |
| 23 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 24 | I was a fool to endure him for so long . ’ |
| 25 | He is also a great friend of the Festival , and it will be a delight to have him with us again . |
| 26 | On their behalf , a local radio station has launched a campaign to keep him at the County Ground . |
| 27 | It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal held that his dismissal was fair and that it was not vitiated by a failure to consult him over the reorganisation . |
| 29 | With a place to take him to , she thought , the Workhouse Master would be more likely to let her grandfather go with her . |
| 30 | Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division . |