Example sentences of "his father [verb] him [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The violent scene ended with his father telling him to leave the house , ‘ so decidedly that I actually left the same day . ’ |
| 2 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 3 | He was educated at the Pestalozzian Institute , Worksop , after which , in 1850 , his father sent him to study chemistry under his close friend Justus von Liebig , at the University of Giessen , in Hesse-Darmstadt . |
| 4 | Which is interesting because he also tells me that his father expected him to follow him to Cambridge University . |
| 5 | Many years later , as he faced the firing squad , Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice . |
| 6 | His father told him to listen now to the way he himself was going to sing them . |
| 7 | Eventually his father persuaded him to return to Normandy but not before Philip of France had learned something of his brother-in-law 's troubles and half-formulated schemes . |
| 8 | His father wanted him to go to Harvard Business School . |
| 9 | At sixteen , his father encouraged him to take an apprenticeship in the local handmade furniture shop . |
| 10 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 11 | His father intended him to follow his trade but , to his chagrin , his son chose to become an actor , supported by the odd pound from his mother . |
| 12 | But after a while his father stopped him to say he was not singing what he had been taught . |