Example sentences of "him work [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If the Minister is not prepared to shoulder the burden on behalf of the British taxpayer , is the time not right for him to work with the European Community in establishing a Europewide diversification initiative ?
2 She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life .
3 After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience .
4 The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month .
5 He was tall and stolidly built , giving an impression of shambling clumsiness until one saw him working in a confined space when he would seem physically to contract and become compact , even graceful , moving about the body with the lightness and precision of a cat .
6 In 1895 Morrison was in London , thinking again about a career in journalism , when C. F. Moberly Bell [ q.v. ] , manager of The Times , offered him work as a secret correspondent to Siam ( Thailand ) .
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