Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] [verb] him [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 2 | I can hardly force him to kiss his grandmother when he so obviously does n't wish to . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe not , and who can then advise him to abandon his education ? |
| 4 | ’ You can not teach a man anything , you can only help him to find it within himself . |
| 5 | If he fails to do this , we can only ask him to take another and perhaps a more careful look at our experiment , and think again . |
| 6 | The manager is responsible for the actual results achieved , and he is held accountable because information about his achievements will be fed back to his superiors , and they can then call him to account to explain his performance . |