Example sentences of "him [to-vb] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd tell him to go and ask at the gas sh offices for any erm shop-soiled |
| 2 | Like him to go and look at the one at er the at er which seems to be a successful one |
| 3 | I probably told him to go and jump in the river . ’ |
| 4 | A querulous voice told him to go and jump in the Thames so he knocked again and eventually the door swung open to reveal a tall , gaunt figure , dressed in a long robe of dyed brown fur . |
| 5 | Tales like this inspired him to go and explore for himself ; and apart from them he had another reason . |
| 6 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 7 | The advocate-depute , Ann Paton , QC , asked if , as a result of what he had told Mackie about the profits warning , Mr Runciman had expected him to go and deal in Shanks & McEwan shares or communicate with others in such a way that they would deal in shares . |
| 8 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 9 | The aim is to invite the Holy Spirit to reveal what is causing this block to growth and to invite him to heal and restore to wholeness the person in question . |
| 10 | A record of his budget-keeping is freely available for him to monitor and review via the LMS microprocessor . |
| 11 | The writer 's kitten is spending a lot of time , and not a little of his owner 's patience , in developing a set of skills specifically to enable him to find and to cope with living prey . |
| 12 | Corbett grasped the unfortunate messenger by the jerkin , forcing him to stand and look at him . |
| 13 | Conway , who prudently forbade Taylor to dedicate any of his works to himself , eventually persuaded him to come and live on his estates in Ireland as a ‘ lecturer ’ , which was a more acceptable title to the authorities than ‘ chaplain ’ . |
| 14 | The Exchequer and Audit Departments Act of 1866 ( as slightly amended in 1921 ) created the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and charged him to identify and report upon the public accounts and to ensure that expenditures were authorised by Parliament and supported by the Treasury . |
| 15 | But the momentary paralysis and the matter of seconds it took him to unwind and cast off the incubus cost him his chance . |
| 16 | So I told him to leave and took in lodgers to make money . |
| 17 | He breathes , digests , lifts an arm , takes the next step , without thinking how to do it , and if bad health forces him to analyse and choose in such peripheral matters he is sorry to be distracted from his central concerns . |
| 18 | She had the feeling that if she could only get him to turn and look at her she 'd recognise him . |
| 19 | He was in better spirits and colour now , for he had been out walking several times with Luch since she had gently persuaded him to dress and go to the wedding . |
| 20 | Bruce nodded and gestured at him to withdraw and turned to Corbett . |
| 21 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 22 | The psychologist had suggested among other things that Mrs Singh could help to improve Jeetinder 's spoken and written language by reading to him at bedtime and could help to improve his numeracy by encouraging him to spend and account for his pocket money . |