Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] him [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ being a person on foot ’ This point is proved by the officer or traffic warden stating in evidence ‘ A man , I now know to be John Smith , stepped from the kerb on the south side of the road and walked towards me in contravention of my signal to him to stop etc . ’ |
| 2 | And the intensity of her longing for him to press his mouth to her lips , or to be roughly crushed within his embrace , was becoming almost more than she could bear . |
| 3 | Mary-Claude was in Lebanon with Sarah having too good a time with her family for him to wish to cut it short . |
| 4 | Corbett indicated with his hand for him to stand still and be silent . |
| 5 | It all stemmed from her desire for him to leave UNACO . |
| 6 | Everything has to be left in separate heaps in his manger for him to inspect before he condescends to eat it . |
| 7 | It is my belief that even without this tragic news , Lord Darlington would have set upon the course he took ; his desire to see an end to injustice and suffering was too deeply ingrained in his nature for him to have done otherwise . |
| 8 | But Whyte emerged from his duel with him to report : ‘ Ian was no problem . |
| 9 | Her bare flesh came close enough to his face for him to inhale its pungent female odour and he peered around desperately into the gloom for some sign of his French companion . |
| 10 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 11 | Such was her exhaustion that she would not have cared if her traitorous purpose was emblazoned across her face for him to see . |