Example sentences of "[verb] he [to-vb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to show him all the beautiful things trees , flowers and birds but most of all I want him to see his big sister , Katie . ’ |
| 2 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
| 3 | But we want him to put his foot on the ball and try to weigh things up . ’ |
| 4 | His parents want him to continue his navy career which was the cause of so much celebration a year ago . |
| 5 | Listening carefully , she frowned , and , putting aside her stethoscope , she turned to Robert and mutely invited him to give his opinion . |
| 6 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 7 | His poems so impressed Thomas Gee , the owner and editor of the influential weekly Baner ac Amserau Cymru ( Banner and Times of Wales ) that he invited him to join his staff as a trainee journalist . |
| 8 | Seeing Curtis at the door in that way she did not need him to repeat his announcement . |
| 9 | Souness said that the Zimbabwean had not approached him to discuss his future despite public grumblings from him that his future lay away from the club . |
| 10 | ‘ We urge him to contact his family or us so people can help him . |
| 11 | Whatever Alain 's plans , they did not include her , other than her enabling him to see his mother happily back in charge of her own home . |
| 12 | The fact that the promisor has already received consideration for his promise before he makes it , so far from enabling him to break his promise seems to us to form an additional reason for making him keep it . |
| 13 | Having expected him to justify his actions , Polly was taken aback by his response . |
| 14 | It was many years since he 'd had anything in common with his foster family and she would have expected him to use his sojourn in America as a tactful method of ending the association , of breaking ties that could have no conceivable advantage for him . |
| 15 | But I mean he 's sucked in at the minute with Linda cos she wants him to put his money with her as well you see . |
| 16 | Oh he wants him to read his favourite story |
| 17 | You helped him to spend his money ! |
| 18 | Music by Scott Joplin then helped him to create his light-heartedly comic Elite Syncopations . |
| 19 | He had a very strong character , and this helped him to live his life to the full , despite his disabilities . |
| 20 | Guy was always very close to his older sister , and after his accident she treated him consistently in the same way as she had before , which helped him to regain his normal social skills very quickly . |
| 21 | 's many friends , customers , colleagues and family helped him to celebrate his early retirement at a party at The Cotswold Water Park , near Cirencester on the evening of Friday , April 2 . |
| 22 | Lucenzo was softening , hour by hour , the longer she was with him and the more she helped him to forget his relentless ambition and that intriguing private agony which had carved his face into such severe lines . |
| 23 | Miss Lambe helped him to unpack his books , holding each one with as much reverence as if it had been the Sacrament . |
| 24 | When he was satisfied , Morton helped him to dismantle his equipment and sent him on his way home . |
| 25 | ‘ So much the worse , I would have wished him to see his township burn . |
| 26 | I must go slowly , persuade him to reveal his own heart . |
| 27 | You do n't attempt to tackle the employee directly and challenge him to explain his actions . |
| 28 | I now challenge him to withdraw his remarks and accept real cuts are taking place in Darlington . ’ |
| 29 | I now challenge him to withdraw his remarks and accept real cuts are taking place in Darlington . ’ |
| 30 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |