Example sentences of "he [to-vb] a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modigliani helped him with the language and , with surprising patience , taught him to wield a knife and fork , to use a pocket handkerchief and to mix in society . |
| 2 | His hands sometimes stopped shaking long enough for him to light a fag or give his teeth the once-over with Pepsodent , but that was every other Scumday in a month with a zed in it . |
| 3 | I daresay she rang him to arrange a date and Dr. Lorrimer did n't like it . |
| 4 | They agreed to release him as an uncontested registration to enable him to find a county where he could hope for greater opportunities , and although we ca n't guarantee a first-team place , he 'll get plenty of chances if he does the business . |
| 5 | I want him to buy a car but |
| 6 | The late professor , Mr. Cummyn , had received £100 a year for his services , which was clearly the attraction , and the true note of weary cynicism was provided by Mungo Graeme of Gorthie who , while acknowledging the youth of the candidate , suggested that ‘ a dispensation from the king for him to travell a year or two will make him a very good professor , as good as Cuminyn was ’ . |
| 7 | Karadzic , apparently encouraged by the new international policy announced in Washington , not only invited Bosnian Muslim and Croat leaders to meet him to discuss a settlement but he also challenged the Muslims to a soccer match . |
| 8 | He is retained by the Daily Express and occasionally its diary editor will have dispatched him to cover a party or reception . |
| 9 | Politely he asked him to leave a quote so he could discuss it with his wife . |
| 10 | Richard rather liked Willis 's pictures , and had got him to do a pen and wash drawing of Lord Jim . |
| 11 | I then asked him to sing a line or two from a song ( it could be anything from a nursery rhyme to a pop song ) , which he was also able to do successfully . |
| 12 | His vision leads him to seek a saviour that he finds in the proletariat , albeit heavily cloaked in ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 14 | Maybe we should tell him to get a modem & subscribe so that he can get some real electronic info ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If he was there , some social worker person would help him to get a flat or a bedsitter or something . |
| 17 | Ever since the happy visit of the year before , I had been trying to persuade him to pay a second and , if possible , longer visit . |
| 18 | After this ordeal Tom left him to have a soak and slowly Willie began to unwind . |
| 19 | ‘ I told him to take a break and have a rethink about the rest of the meeting . ’ |
| 20 | A lunch break would give him his chance , forcing him to make a decision whether or not to delay his own sustenance in order to overtake us as we crammed fruit cake into our faces . |
| 21 | This can find expression in ‘ I must get him to make a will before he dies ’ — a basic desire to get things sorted out — and may extend to attempts to resolve family quarrels , an anxiety that the sun should not in this case go down fur ever on wrath . |
| 22 | Norman 's music teacher badly wanted him to become a professional because he had a fine tenor ; voice and was a talented violinist . |