Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't make up my own mind whether to get him to lengthen or shorten and in consequence I did n't make his mind up to do either and we floundered over it untidily , his hooves rapping the wooden frames , my weight too far forward … a mess . |
| 2 | A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse . |
| 3 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 4 | The Church has no alternative but to condemn him , excommunicate and reject him , as Pope Leo put it , ‘ having regard to the safety of his soul ’ , the pope expressing the hope that in return Coenwulf would be more generous to the Church of St Peter than Offa had been . |
| 5 | She had no alternative but to tell him a series of absolute whoppers , as her younger brother , Rob , would have said . |
| 6 | Oliver would n't understand that it was nicer of Dad to make him a toy than to buy him some dull old thing from a shop . |
| 7 | THERE was a time when it was easier to get a stockbroker to buy you lunch than to get him to give a sell recommendation for a share . |
| 8 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 9 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 10 | They refused to allow him to examine his sister 's file except to show him that it contained a photograph of her . |
| 11 | Accordingly , some of Panmure 's friends were reported to ‘ have been so free with Mr. Erskine as to tell him that if L[or]d Dunn should appear against ’ the Panmure interest , then Erskine would certainly lose his collectorship . |
| 12 | We have no choice but to love him , nervously . |
| 13 | The pressure of his hand increased as he moved nearer to her , so that she had no choice but to let him tip her face up to his . |
| 14 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 15 | The other half of it lies in mobilising party and public support sufficiently strongly to leave Mrs Thatcher with no choice but to readmit him to the Cabinet if the Tories do return to office after the next election . |
| 16 | There had been no choice but to kill him again . |
| 17 | And you had no choice but to tell him . |
| 18 | He began attending evening classes in the Mechanics ' Institute and ‘ thereby developed the gifts of teaching and speaking , and habits of thought and reading , with so much success as to mark him out as one called of God ’ . |
| 19 | Prince Charles Edward was not among the runaways although to rescue him had been the task force 's real objective . |
| 20 | If it was really the case that he did not mention the power of attorney when speaking to her on that occasion and left her in ignorance of her responsibilities and status , his failure shows , in my opinion , such a want of care as to preclude him from relying , in support of his non est factum plea , on her ignorance of the power . |
| 21 | Last night Darlington police said a 14-year-old boy has been questioned about the fire and has been released pending a decision whether to charge him with any offence . |
| 22 | What better revenge than to disgrace him by rigging a scandal involving the dead man 's daughter , a married woman ? |
| 23 | But she thought of how , if the positions had been reversed , she would have written pages full of detail to Ellen , would have described a child in such a way as to make him spring from the writing , alive and visible . |
| 24 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 25 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 26 | He took her arm , and short of starting an undignified fight she saw no option but to join him as he strolled towards the white-painted gate , set in the surrounding outer stone walls . |
| 27 | For reasons best known to himself Carr kicked the legs from under Murray , leaving referee Brian White with no option but to order him off . |
| 28 | ‘ He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him , ’ she said . |
| 29 | In which case she was left with no option but to tell him , a trace arrogantly , it was true , ‘ I do n't wish to discuss it ! ’ |
| 30 | And although Steve Chettle is fit again , Republic of Ireland star Keane stays at centre half for today 's trip to Chelsea with Clough insisting : ‘ I had no option but to play him there . |