Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] him [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Robert 's luck was not in on this occasion , however , for Milton had already promised the desired appointment to Cockburn of Clerkington to induce him to lead the opposition in East Lothian to Sir Hew Dalrymple of North Berwick , in order to secure the seat for Andrew Fletcher , younger of Saltoun . |
| 2 | Other Marxists have contended that Althusser 's rendering of Marx compels him to deny the evidence of Marx 's texts in which intentionalist as well as structuralist arguments are present ( Elster , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | One state Department cable to the US ambassador in Teheran asked him to remind the Shah the reforms were necessary " because it is generally agreed that without some reforms Iran as likely as Khrushchev predicted to fall to Soviets like ripe plum " |
| 4 | One day he wrote to Linton inviting him to visit the Grange . |
| 5 | Cos I thought that was a with a utmost difficulty and he has to get his little daughter on Sunday to help him to clean the place . |
| 6 | A Mr. Chapman wrote to Whitbread asking him to return the copy of a report written by Dr. Yeats who had seen the girl on admission . |
| 7 | It was all very well for Bragg to instruct him to go the rounds of prostitutes ' haunts , but he had precious little idea of how to go about it . |
| 8 | On 12 October 1974 an industrial friend at Unilever invited him to share the company 's box at Covent Garden to see an opera . |
| 9 | A motion submitted by Yeltsin allowing him to retain the right to head the government and to decide its composition until December 1992 was defeated . |