Example sentences of "he [to-vb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , sometimes a person 's consent to a right or benefit is required for him to acquire that right or a benefit . |
| 2 | I did n't want him to breathe that stuff into his lungs , ’ he says . |
| 3 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 4 | It is the Spirit who not only convinces Paul that ‘ imprisonment and afflictions ’ await him if he goes to Jerusalem , but constrains him to accept that destiny ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 5 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 6 | But the realization that his own civilization is extinguishing cultures of ‘ savages ’ possessed of coherent ways of living prompts him to demand that civilization be considered in no narrow perspective . |
| 7 | I shall be happy to give way to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) if Mr. Speaker will allow him to answer that question . |
| 8 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 9 | Oh it 'd be better for him to put that fire on at night time and go over in the morning and switch it off . |
| 10 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 11 | I let him have his pet , but in the end I went and tried to be nice to him ( because I knew I must get him to send that letter ) . |
| 12 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 13 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 14 | If at the time the issue arises the patient still has capacity to decide , they can not only explore the scope of his decision with the patient , but can seek to persuade him to alter that decision . |
| 15 | If he considers an authority 's budget excessive — or , indeed , considers it an excessive increase on the previous year 's budget — that is sufficient reason for him to cap that authority . |
| 16 | I want him to investigate that vent for any sign that someone might have used it to escape . ’ |
| 17 | If the father wished there to be a residence order and thus revocation of the care order it was , of course , necessary for him to have that order from the justices . |
| 18 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 19 | There is direct precedent in the first case , and he knows that sound strategy might require him to follow that precedent . |
| 20 | I am not ready for him to achieve that moment of glory . |
| 21 | I wanted him to make that decision . |
| 22 | No woman had ever caused him to make that kind of mistake before . |
| 23 | For him to make that sort of joke on the recording was in keeping with the impression Charles was beginning to form of his character . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman would address the problem more accurately were he to acknowledge that fact . |