Example sentences of "him [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This also allowed him to carry off the Irish championship … |
| 2 | It may be that the curiosity of Frederick I having a red beard has caused him to remain in the popular imagination : red-headed men and women have many superstitions attached to them , particularly red-headed kings . |
| 3 | A farmer and his wife have been teaching their son at home for over two years because they do n't want him to go to a special school . |
| 4 | Trust him to go to the other extreme . |
| 5 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 6 | I said I wanted him to go to an outside hospital , so they took him . |
| 7 | She gestured for him to go with an indifferent wave of her hand . |
| 8 | To his embarrassment , the lawyer at the hearings then obliged him to go through a whole code-sheet to get the names into the record , or perhaps just to entertain the audience . |
| 9 | Eventually , though , I could no longer manage him at home — he was so weak ; so I arranged for him to go into the residential home , where Miss Prescott and Mrs Whitaker did everything they possibly could to make him happy and comfortable — and succeeded . |
| 10 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 11 | ‘ A pity you did n't get him to attend to the little bitch before , ’ commented Rachel . |
| 12 | For default summonses , " sufficient time " means sufficient time for the defendant to deliver a defence , admission or counterclaim within fourteen days after delivery of the summons , and sufficient time in the case of fixed date summonses for him to attend on the return day ( Ord 7 , r 18(3) ) . |
| 13 | Richard suffers from narcolepsy … a condition of the brain which causes him to fall into a sudden , uncontrolled and spontaneous sleep several times a day . |
| 14 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 15 | Now this short note cruelly dashed his hopes : the mysterious writer apologised for not meeting him but asked him to wait amongst the ancient ruins to the north-west of the Tower . |
| 16 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 17 | ‘ of a qualified driver ’ The supervisor must be a ‘ qualified driver ’ as defined in regulation 9(6) of the Motor Vehicles ( Driving Licences ) Regulations 1987 , namely , a person who holds a full licence authorising him to drive as a full licence holder a motor vehicle of the same class or description as the vehicle being driven by the holder of the provisional licence . |
| 18 | Last week , chairman Lord Alexander bit the bullet : Frost became deputy chairman , freeing him to cope with the re-opened Department of Trade and Industry probe . |
| 19 | He needs therapy and some rehabilitation to enable him to cope with the constant uncertainty of his life and the violent frustration his condition causes him . |
| 20 | Further work with this family is required as Darren 's weight gain is not yet sufficient for him to thrive in the long term , but it demonstrates the intensity and the long-term nature of the help required . |
| 21 | The defender is often faced with a claim of exorbitant amount , an agent for the pursuer who is unprepared or unable to quantify the same properly , and a pursuer who believes that his accident will be sufficient to enable him to retire to a comfortable abode in the sun . |
| 22 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 23 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 24 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 25 | But the personnel manageress said later : ‘ We may ask him to appear as the real thing next time . ’ |
| 26 | Once , the script required him to jump through a plate-glass window . |
| 27 | The scene had called for him to stand on a cliff-top , surveying the land stretching out behind — land he and his marauding band had taken by force . |
| 28 | His hands were shaking , and it was hard for him to stand in the terrible screaming wind . |
| 29 | Chamlong Simaung , the popular and charismatic Governor of Bangkok and leader of the Palang Dharma , announced on Jan. 14 that he was resigning his post to allow him to stand in the forthcoming elections in Bangkok Constituency 2 , one of the country 's most fiercely contested seats . |
| 30 | By forging letters from Walter she , paradoxically , felt she could convey a real image of him to stand against the false one . |