Example sentences of "him [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Niro had to fight for him to co-star in GoodFellas , but that was the picture which changed it all . |
| 2 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 3 | This also allowed him to carry off the Irish championship … |
| 4 | Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign . |
| 5 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 6 | The vicious personal attack on him by Ernets Bevin and his humiliating defeat made it impossible for him to remain as leader . |
| 7 | Publicly , Mr Kinnock 's closest colleagues were urging him to remain in post . |
| 8 | It may be that the curiosity of Frederick I having a red beard has caused him to remain in the popular imagination : red-headed men and women have many superstitions attached to them , particularly red-headed kings . |
| 9 | THE SUCCESSFUL UUUC MPS HAD THE NUMBERS TO HAVE ENABLED HIM TO REMAIN IN OFFICE , BUT WERE BOUND BY AN ELECTION PLEDGE NOT TO SUPPORT HIM . |
| 10 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
| 11 | One of the people who advised him to remain in Morocco was the legendary Ardeshir Zahedi , son of the Shah 's prime minister in 1953 , and till recently the Iranian ambassador in Washington . |
| 12 | The Assembly approved a law to " perpetuate the memory of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle in law " and declaring Oct. 23 a national holiday ; it also unanimously approved a statement of intent on joining the Council of Europe ; and it accepted the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth of the Hungarian Socialist Party ( the reformed successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ) , but requested him to remain in office at the head of an interim government until a replacement government had been formed . |
| 13 | KMT secretary-general James Soong tendered his resignation in the election aftermath , but President Lee persuaded him to remain in his post . |
| 14 | It was not a magical experience , enabling him to go without food for the rest of his flight , but it was a meal for the spirit that kept him nourished and firm in his intention until he reached Horeb the mountain of God ( 1 Kings 19:1–8 ) . |
| 15 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
| 16 | ‘ Father vould n't really vant him to go for all the summer . ’ |
| 17 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 18 | Mr Ingram drives a company car , so the banding changes making that more expensive will probably persuade him to go for a smaller model . |
| 19 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 20 | ‘ And he has all the support I can give him to go for it next year . ’ |
| 21 | There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs . |
| 22 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 23 | so there would of been nothing there for him to go for , you must of been ever so worried following him around watching him . |
| 24 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 25 | His father wanted him to go to Harvard Business School . |
| 26 | I told him to go to hell ! |
| 27 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 28 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 29 | Although Haworth had intended to make a career in the chemical industry , he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Gottingen for postgraduate work . |
| 30 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |