Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 've decided to stay on a bit to settle him . ’ |
| 3 | A MOTORIST , who needed a stick to help him walk , left his car parked in a dangerous position at Alton High Street . |
| 4 | Just days after overturning a decision to deselect him , the Labour stalwart has now been rejected by his colleagues at the party 's county level . |
| 5 | A CLEVELAND fireman is appealing against a decision to transfer him from Thornaby fire station to his home town of Billingham . |
| 6 | It ends with her making a decision to kiss him or get out and swim . |
| 7 | Whatever the origin of the revolt , by early 1183 it had been transformed into a struggle to make him Duke of Aquitaine in place of the " tyrannical " Richard . |
| 8 | That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America . |
| 9 | You pay a forfeit to put him in that race . |
| 10 | I say it 's a trick to persuade him to stay . |
| 11 | The pony really needs a vet to sort him out . |
| 12 | Get a vet to check him over to be sure . |
| 13 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 14 | Laughton is in a hole and the players as professional sportsmen have a responsibility to pull him out of it . |
| 15 | There was no other option as the Hurseys live in a known highrisk parvovirus area and carrying around a Great Dane puppy in a blanket to acclimatise him to street life — as one might with Yorkshire terrier pup — is hardly practical AND needs a very large owner ! |
| 16 | I stated my views to Lord Stanley as fully as I could , but I fear that the Exchequer is not in a condition to enable him to second my views , 1 think you will do me the credit to say that if any man can organize an Expedition for interior research I can , and that there are few if any here more qualified from experience for such a task . |
| 17 | RUSSIA 's president , Boris Yeltsin , yesterday gave warning that his country would be plunged into ‘ an abyss of confrontation ’ if the Congress of People 's Deputies went ahead with a vote to impeach him . |
| 18 | Mr Yeltsin 's aides have said he would ignore a vote to remove him by the Congress , which was elected before the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | She had half a mind to put him back in his box and sit on the lid . |
| 20 | Henry was so infuriated by the childlike look of loss on his face he had half a mind to give him some . |
| 21 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 22 | ‘ Besides , ’ Theda added , her eyes flashing , ‘ after the way he spoke to me , I am not of a mind to hand him gifts . ’ |
| 23 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 24 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 25 | Unfortunately though , he became too domesticated and did n't have a fear of humans so he was put on a programme to help him adjust to the wild . |
| 26 | A relief as much as a pleasure to see him emerge with credit , both as director and performer . |
| 27 | Even to her inexperienced eyes it was clear he was no beginner , and frankly it was a pleasure to watch him . |
| 28 | Another television series , Seven Ages ( 1987 ) , an inquiry into the stages of existence enumerated by Jacques in As You Like It , led a critic to christen him ‘ Ron Hot-Eyre ’ . |
| 29 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 30 | Yeremi found himself thinking passionately of that anonymous slave abandoned in the pitch-dark tube , with none of the superhuman muscle power of a Scout to help him , and fetters to mock his efforts . |