Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tempted to hide in her room and avoid meeting him until the meal was served , she knew she must not . |
| 2 | He wanted to be free — of all constraints , all material imperatives , of all the forces hunting him and the opportunities drawing him on . |
| 3 | A government spokesman said Professor Guido de Marco , Foreign Minister , had received a letter from his Libyan counterpart informing him that the two bomb suspects had asked to be tried in Malta , and asking Malta to accede to this request . |
| 4 | John Strachey , a leading Left Book Club and Communist intellectual , wrote to his schoolfriend Robert Boothby — now a left-wing Tory MP — reassuring him that the left would support a pact with the Tory dissidents , even if the Communist Party was excluded ( which it was bound to be ) . |
| 5 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |
| 6 | However , she had kept a brave face , telling him about the affairs of the manor , assuring him that the child growing in her belly was as well as could be expected . |
| 7 | However with Scott supporting him and the stable having hit form he should be able to knock out the odd winner or two in the coming weeks . |
| 8 | Even so , she felt extremely uncomfortable about facing him while the details were so clear in her mind . |
| 9 | I could n't help asking him if the waitresses in the Cabinet Office canteen still wear those terrible green overalls . ’ |
| 10 | By then Richards , his England colleague and the opposition No 8 , had retired , reluctantly conceding that a troublesome right Achilles ' tendon was not helping him or the Tigers . |
| 11 | For a child to feel free to respond to a make-believe situation , there must be sufficient signals in the environment reminding him that the real world continues to exist . |
| 12 | He climbed into the bus that was taking him and the company 's guests back to the hotel and he sat next to someone he did not recognise in the only seat left vacant . |
| 13 | In early October acting US Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin promising him that the USA would maintain present levels of military aid to Israel . |
| 14 | And all these are telling him whether the person is confused , concussed or what , whether he 's able to go on , alright , erm check the memory because that is a good indication . |
| 15 | Galbraith recalls that he astonished Premier Nehru in the 1950s by telling him that the Punjab was a better place to live and offered a higher general level of income than rural West Virginia , Georgia and Mississippi . |
| 16 | Knox was invited to return ; but when he reached Dieppe , he found messages telling him that the time was not ripe . |
| 17 | At the end of August he received another letter from Leopold telling him that the archbishop had forgiven him and wanted a reconciliation . |
| 18 | This was duly done , and in 1072 Lanfranc wrote an account of the proceedings to the pope , telling him that the whole question of Canterbury 's primacy had been ventilated at two Councils , at Windsor and Winchester . |
| 19 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 20 | The defendant then prepared and submitted to the manager of the shop , Mr. Gilberd , a list of goods to the value of £7,950 , telling him that the list represented a bona fide order placed by one Johal and asking him to authorise the supply of the goods against a building society cheque for that amount . |
| 21 | The DI had returned home and been greeted by Julie telling him that the Records Officer had called . |
| 22 | Admittedly she had never got around to telling him that the invitation was off . |
| 23 | Can I put the Home Secretary back on the right road by telling him that the reason why morale in the Northumbria police force is low and why chief constables generally despair is not because the right hon. Gentleman suddenly makes a generous offer of help in a crisis , but because all chief constables , including the new chief constable of Northumbria , want consistency of funding so that they can be sure that they will get the officers and resources they require over a number of years ? |
| 24 | May I encourage him by telling him that the Chief Constable 's view is that four out of every five planned terrorist incidents in Northern Ireland are thwarted before they take place ? |
| 25 | It was a brief letter from an address in Chelsea , telling him that the writer had heard he was looking for a sibling , affirming that the writer of the letter was probably that person , and suggesting a meeting . |
| 26 | The officer with the harsh voice was advising him that the money would be ‘ charged to the Lord Advocate 's account ’ if he himself could not ‘ procure the funds ’ . |
| 27 | On November 21st he told Poindexter , who was advising him that the Justice Department ‘ fact-finding mission ’ was about to descend on his office , that he had got rid of them all . |
| 28 | In this case it may be by asking the child to pick up a toy , being ignored , then compelling him or her to pick it up by physical guidance then putting the child out of the room and leaving him when the inevitable tantrum occurs . |
| 29 | And he once passed on to BitC an invitation he had received requesting him and the Princess to open the conference of a Brent Women 's Association , with a note saying , ‘ Do you think I should do it ? |
| 30 | She had stopped crying and lay there rigid , her face averted from him , her whole body rejecting him and the cruel world . |