Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What had you in mind to pursue him for ? ’ |
| 2 | And above all , why should Isambard come down here in person to visit him after supper , splendid and ceremonious in his brown and gold brocade , attended by servants bringing in a gilded chair for him , and a page carrying wine ? |
| 3 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 4 | Guo 's comments , and other remarks by Chinese officials earlier in the month , were interpreted as reflecting China 's intention of stepping up pressure on Chris Patten , Hong Kong 's Governor-designate , in order to dissuade him from considering any major changes in the colony or attempting to amend clauses in the Basic Law which would determine Hong Kong 's position under Chinese rule from 1997 [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 5 | He had naively assumed that the Concorde ticket he had seen on her desk had been one she had gone out and bought in order to join him in New York . |
| 6 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 7 | Dealers at Harvard Securities found it amusing to ring up a client at 8.20 am. and to interrupt his shaving , breakfasting , or love-making in order to press him into buying stock . |
| 8 | The Chief Priest and the whole council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death . |
| 9 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 10 | The exiled Aristide held a meeting in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Dec. 29 with the mayor of the capital , Port-au-Prince , Evans Paul , and six Haitian parliamentarians to discuss a new effort at national reconciliation in order to restore him to office . |
| 11 | For example , if his son was suffering from rabies , Gandhi would consider it his duty to take his son 's life in order to relieve him of his agony . |
| 12 | Gbagbo said that he was imprisoned in order to disqualify him from standing in presidential elections due in 1995 . |
| 13 | How he expected his career to develop when he contracted this marriage is unclear , but he can hardly have supposed that he would be summoned home by the King when Archbishop Warham died , in order to succeed him as Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 14 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 15 | You have to be very aware of the patient 's physical limitations in relation to his spasticity , in order to prevent him from trying to do more than he can , which would inevitably make his situation worse . |
| 16 | He first requested leave of absence from court to stay with the dying earl at Wilton , in order to prevent him from giving his inheritance elsewhere . |
| 17 | Further , Guntram feared that Brunhild would contact the " pretender " , and he actually wrote to Gundovald in her name , in order to trick him into disbanding his troops . |
| 18 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 19 | He watched as Harvey called Kenneth Baker over to him in order to introduce him to Amaranth . |
| 20 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 21 | The independent surveyor asked for their submissions in order to assist him in his task . |
| 22 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 23 | The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support . |
| 24 | Were they all pretending to be ignorant in order to trap him into making some punishable blunder . |
| 25 | God had given his Spirit to his anointed king in order to equip him for his leadership of the people . |
| 26 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 27 | Then they tore in a wild , bumpy , breakneck race across the rough heath to Scawby Marsh and got ropes round the poor terrified pony just in time to keep him above the shifting surface before the marsh engulfed him . |