Example sentences of "him [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 2 | As Byrd begins the long rehabilitation process which doctors hope will enable him to regain some movement , former team-mate Al Toon , one of the game 's top wide receivers , sits in retirement after being unable to shake off the effects of the ninth concussion in his eight-year career . |
| 3 | His entire book is devoted to ways of improving the proportion of the ink that is devoted to conveying aspects of the data , and of erasing chartjunk ; this leads him to suggest some simplification of boxplots , for example . |
| 4 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 5 | The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Jozef wanted him to do some sort of favour and Mills refused . ’ |
| 7 | Ask him to put some water in a bowl , and you can bring it into the scullery . |
| 8 | He shouted at me so I sat under the table and waited for him to put some food down . |
| 9 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 10 | 10.28 : Persuaded P to get dressed and beat the clock — 3½ minutes , then back to coaxing him to finish some colouring . |
| 11 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 12 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |
| 13 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 14 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 15 | By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 . |
| 16 | His awareness and exploitation of these rights enable him to achieve some success in making criticisms of the Czechoslovakian government . |
| 17 | You ask him to speak some Hebrew to you . |
| 18 | Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence . |
| 19 | Ask him to make some sort of crutch for me . |
| 20 | She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’ |
| 21 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 22 | As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal . |