Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoped I would do nothing to compel him to shake hands with the murderers of his relatives . |
| 2 | When everyone expected him to break into a nimble tune , he played a slow air that sounded Irish in the long luxuriant unfolding of each phrase . |
| 3 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 4 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
| 5 | None of them got him to justify our membership of the ERM , which is , as everyone knows , the cause of our high interest rates . |
| 6 | Patting his cheeks with his handkerchief all the time ( till I asked him to stop it ) . |
| 7 | Erm , and I asked him to stop and come down the isle . |
| 8 | I asked him to desist not from his prayers but from his actions because I felt sure that God wanted to prepare the Anglican priest for his death . |
| 9 | I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team . |
| 10 | However , he already knew Joy and Alan , and the kettle was boiling , so I asked him to sit down , and would he like to join us in a coffin ? |
| 11 | Once when I was in design and technology class , I asked him to give me a screw and he said , ‘ See me after school and I 'll give you one . ’ |
| 12 | I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and demands . |
| 13 | I asked him to give me an image for Love , something I could see , |
| 14 | He said that there is regular demand for shots of Sydney , and therefore it would be worth my while making a detour to extend my portfolio , I asked him to give me a list of potentially commercial sites in the city , based on his experience of sales and of demands . |
| 15 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 16 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 17 | I asked him to wait . |
| 18 | supervision out which is what I asked him to do . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Fairfax only did what I asked him to do , ’ put in Charlotte . |
| 20 | I 'd be interested to know whether Neil did that list of things I asked him to do . |
| 21 | I asked him to let me have his agreement to this and give me the destination . " |
| 22 | ‘ Of course , why do you think I asked him to attend the opening of the store ? ’ |
| 23 | I was so offended I asked him to leave me alone . |
| 24 | I asked him to explain his pricing policy . |
| 25 | I asked him to explain , expecting to hear a version of |
| 26 | I asked him to explain how the Area relates to the rest of the University . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked him to call if he was ever this way . |
| 28 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 29 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 30 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |