Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gave him a stiff sentence in a House of Correction to teach him better ways . |
| 2 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 3 | Would the daughter even remember her father with the perpetual presence of Hope to blot him out ? |
| 4 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
| 5 | But he was under exclusive contract to Universal , and they wanted a prohibitive amount of money to loan him out . |
| 6 | His mouth was clasped to her breast but she had long since run out of milk to feed him . |
| 7 | Nevertheless few other aspects of caste are maintained , and during the daughter 's long engagement she will spend plenty of time with her fiancé , giving her plenty of opportunity to reject him . |
| 8 | It takes a lot of gratuitous cruelty perpetrated in the name of dogma to make him criticize the Party , as when the ‘ Attack the Evil Winds of Capitalism Team ’ tells the old peasant Guo Lao-da to kill the six ‘ capitalist ’ ducks he owns . |
| 9 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 10 | He released a hundred quintols of amyl to remind him of that . |
| 11 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 12 | It is not recorded in what mischief the Lord Mayor of York used to indulge , but the Lady Mayoress had a three foot long staff of honour to keep him in order ! |
| 13 | Because it is impossible to use a shield while swinging a halberd this trooper wears a substantial suit of armour to protect him . |
| 14 | Otley and I held on to him while Nigel searched for a large piece of wood to haul him out with , and in the meantime we had a close-up of the lush vegetation of the riverside : buttercups , forget-me-nots , dog roses and honeysuckle and the shy little water avens modestly hiding its peach-coloured face . |
| 15 | Benji is quite an old boy and needs plenty of work to get him supple . |
| 16 | Conversely , it has been accepted that the court may inquire as to whether a visitor intends to act outside his jurisdiction and in a proper case to grant a writ or order of prohibition to restrain him : Bishop of Chichester v. Harward , 1 Durn. & E. 650 ; see also Bently v. Bishop of Ely , 1 Barn.K.B. 192 . |
| 17 | But it was also a time of exhaustion and tension as I desperately hurtled between work , father and family ; and of sorrow to see him suffering . |
| 18 | And he knows there will be plenty of business to occupy him against Thornton . |
| 19 | Redpath had acted at once on the very slenderest of chances — apart from the date , and the fact that Stavanger was missing , there was n't a scrap of evidence to link him with the body found on the Thames foreshore at low tide . |
| 20 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |
| 21 | I 'm not the type of person to tell him straight out to go . ’ |
| 22 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 23 | A former British and European light-welterweight champion , Barrett has now asked the British Boxing Board of Control to name him as challenger to Gary Jacobs for the British welterweight championship and Ludovic Proto for the European title before he considers a second world title . |
| 24 | And I said do you want a piece of paper to write him a message or something ? |
| 25 | At first Lorton refused to allow the absence of news to worry him . |
| 26 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 27 | This will be Cantona 's first visit to Hillsborough since he snubbed Wednesday , and his reception will be far removed from the hero worship of Elland Road or Old Trafford.Fergie will need all his powers of communication to prevent him being French fried in the face of hostility he is unlikely to have encountered before . |
| 28 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 29 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 30 | In all cases there are simple rights of appeal to the secretary of state to enable him to resolve any disputes between a district and a region . |