Example sentences of "him go [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Trust him to go to the other extreme . |
| 3 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | I said I wanted him to go to an outside hospital , so they took him . |
| 5 | She gestured for him to go with an indifferent wave of her hand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 10 | And with him going to a different school . |
| 11 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 12 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |
| 13 | Paige watched him go with a sinking heart . |