Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] him [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 2 | The adoption of the italic script by many schools and a wider interest in the reform of handwriting encouraged him to initiate the founding of the Society for Italic Handwriting in 1952 , with a director of education , Joseph Compton , as chairman ; it soon had more than 500 members . |
| 3 | Another flash of lightning allowed him to see the figure of a woman running towards the rick . |
| 4 | Freud did this , even though his explicit view of science led him to think the scientist should not make judgements of this kind . |
| 5 | The President 's obsession with security led him to authorize the wire-tapping of government employees , while Liddy and Hunt , part of the Watergate burglary team , illegally entered the offices of a psychiatrist who had treated Daniel Ellsberg , the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press , in order to steal his medical records . |
| 6 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |
| 7 | Wilfrid seems to have been her spiritual adviser : she had endowed his new monastery in Hexham , he had veiled her on her entry to religion , and Ecgfrith had reportedly offered Wilfrid land and wealth in order to get him to persuade the queen to live as his wife . |
| 8 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |