Example sentences of "him [to-vb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That was part of their game , of course ; leave him to search for the way to escape , but alone . |
| 3 | Following a meeting this morning at the Department of Energy , may I ask him to arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement answering the anger in Coventry , not just about the way in which the pit was closed and the loss of jobs , but the belief that the closure took place to mothball 40 million tonnes of medium sulphur content coal so that , were the Conservatives to be re-elected and the pits privatised , Daw Mill could take that coal out in a UDM pit ? |
| 4 | I had one job to do first thing in the morning — to ring Sir Geoffrey Gillington and ask him to arrange for the manager of the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank to receive Miss Macdonald when she called , and to keep her letter for me . |
| 5 | I was the one who recommended him to try for the job . |
| 6 | Before leaving London I had sent him , as requested , two questions about the U-boat war which I wanted him to answer for the programme . |
| 7 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 8 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 9 | If your mother dies and your father needs your help , you should see that he returns her pension book together with the free death certificate ( Form BD8 ) to the local Social Security Office and assist him to apply for the death grant . |
| 10 | However , where any person holds proxies requiring him to vote for the appointment of himself as trustee , he may use those proxies and vote accordingly ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 11 | Before the trial , the Sunday Times had just asked him to pose for the fashion pages of their magazine , wearing tough-guy togs . |
| 12 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 13 | The revenues it generated — well over £2 million — were what enabled him to bid for the factory at Earby , only a couple of miles over the hill from Barnoldswick . |
| 14 | They include power to enter , at any reasonable time , any premises which he has reason to believe it is necessary for him to enter for the purpose of carrying into effect any of the legal provisions within the field of responsibility of his enforcing authority . |