Example sentences of "him [to-vb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A licensing board may grant a provisional licence to the holder of any licence to enable him to carry on business in temporary premises during the reconstruction of his premises .
2 The Australian authorities took a commendably enlightened view of the matter , however , and allowed him to carry out research on the Trobriand Islands close to New Guinea .
3 His mother allowed him to sit out college for a year and he never went back .
4 In the smaller areas he starts with pure watercolour but then uses white and yellow acrylic to enable him to work back light over dark .
5 Francois now moved in the general direction of Neidenburg to get behind the Russian rear , despite the fact that Ludendorff had ordered him to march rapidly northeast toward Lahna .
6 Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation .
7 When blindness compelled him to give up farming in 1966 he learned Braille and carried on with his public duties , being much in demand as a witty public speaker .
8 This enabled him to cash out blood in the currency of hours of prolonged life .
9 Were a seller to accept such an indemnity he would probably want to add further clauses requiring the buyer to give prompt notification of such claims , to permit him to take over conduct of the claim , not to admit liability , and to render him any necessary assistance in contesting the claim .
10 He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people .
11 As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man .
12 THIS WEEK Timothy Raison , minister for Overseas Development , will read a report from his civil servants advising him to hand over control of an international conservation treaty to the Department of the Environment .
13 On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections .
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