Example sentences of "him [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 2 | Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign . |
| 3 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 4 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 5 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 6 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 7 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 8 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 9 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 10 | Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema . |
| 11 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 12 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 13 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 14 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 15 | Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police . |
| 16 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 17 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 18 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 19 | She was too full of misery to finish and she brushed past him to go to the stairs , not able to face this at all . |
| 20 | I even tried to get him to go to the studio . |
| 21 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 22 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't want him to go into the theatre with you ? |
| 24 | The repetitive purr of the telephone broke into the fragile atmosphere , and Shelley walked past Miguel without looking at him to go into the villa . |
| 25 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 26 | It wants him to go beyond the landscaping of degraded industrial sites as a means of attracting new investment , to embrace the concept of ‘ sustainable development ’ which was backed by the UK government at the recent Earth Summit . |
| 27 | The most muttered-against official is the director of campaigning , John Lacy , though no one in the organisation expects him to go before the election . |
| 28 | ‘ Knowing him , I expect he wanted to get rid of anything that made him think of the separation from his family , ’ she said sympathetically . |
| 29 | This does at least make him think of the kinds of life to be found in the sea . |
| 30 | Gombrich makes him think of the readiness with which the eye recognizes the features of the human face . |