Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy remembers Paul Heaton ringing him to pester him into listening to The Housemartins ' demo , telling him , ‘ You 've got ta sign us , we 're brilliant . ’ |
| 2 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |
| 3 | And he turned on Mr Major to accuse him of running ‘ a regime unwilling to tolerate dissent and afraid of views different from its own ’ . |
| 4 | Like Dexter , BBC pundit Lewis would receive a wage to compensate him for giving up his TV and newspaper work . |
| 5 | I think the Danuese battalions were the idea of someone high up at home and they did n't wish to offend him by indicating that his brainchild was , as Mr Burnett would have said , a white elephant . |
| 6 | Henry had tried to tempt him into making a racist statement by announcing that he had seen a black person outside the window two weeks ago , but all the constable had said was ‘ You do n't see many coloureds in this part of Wimbledon . ’ |
| 7 | It had originally been sent to King Henry VIII to tempt him into marrying the girl-widow . |
| 8 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 9 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 10 | Huddersfield 's winger Billy Smith was felled on the edge of ( some said just outside ) the area , and he drove the ball home from the spot , despite the goalkeeper 's efforts to distract him by jumping up and down . |
| 11 | A particular provision in this respect ( Clause 10.08 ) should be included in the agreement to cover the case of a partner being appointed without the benefit of a charging clause where it is necessary to exclude him from participating in fees earned on behalf of the firm for work done in the estate or trust concerned : for him to accept any benefit through the firm 's involvement would be incompatible with his position as executor or trustee . |
| 12 | If it was really the case that he did not mention the power of attorney when speaking to her on that occasion and left her in ignorance of her responsibilities and status , his failure shows , in my opinion , such a want of care as to preclude him from relying , in support of his non est factum plea , on her ignorance of the power . |
| 13 | Lissa did not know where she found the strength to answer him without betraying anything of her inner turmoil . |
| 14 | He seems to have allowed his awareness of the different native languages of Britain to lead him into defining Oswald 's Anglo-British imperium in excessive terms . |
| 15 | An ambulance crew tried to resuscitate him before taking him to Arrowe Park Hospital where he died soon afterwards . |
| 16 | President Venkataraman then attempted to replace him by transferring Surjit Singh Barnala , the Governor of Tamil Nadu , who had himself incurred the central government 's displeasure in late January when he refused formally to recommend the imposition of president 's rule . |
| 17 | Certified accountant Tony Berry , former chairman and chief executive of the Blue Arrow employment agency and one time darling of the City , faces action by the Department of Trade and Industry to disqualify him from acting as a company director , following publication of a highly critical DTI inspectors ' report into Blue Arrow 's management . |
| 18 | Gbagbo said that he was imprisoned in order to disqualify him from standing in presidential elections due in 1995 . |
| 19 | Vuk 's next project was a Serbian dictionary , and to help him in collecting words to include in it he made a journey to Serbia in 1816 on his way back to Vienna , calling on his old friend the archimandrite Lukian Mušički in the monastery at Šišatovac in the Fruška Gora . |
| 20 | If she 's particularly fond of someone who has Alzheimer 's and wants to help him by producing a foetus , who has the right to say no ? |
| 21 | She had not the heart to embarrass him by refusing a request so diffidently expressed . |
| 22 | Were they all pretending to be ignorant in order to trap him into making some punishable blunder . |
| 23 | A report says he made a series of errors , but goes on to praise him for rescuing his pilot and passengers when the helicopter threatened to catch fire . |
| 24 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 25 | There he attempted to persuade the counts Ramon and Berenguer to aid him in taking Saragossa , a key fortress which King Ferdinand had long sought to bring under his sway . |
| 26 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 27 | Under the Newman system , each Producer would be allocated a Story ( Script ) Editor to free him from writing overheads , and a pool of ( mostly staff ) Directors actually to make the programmes . |
| 28 | I was trying to discourage him from coming , but he seemed determined to make the flight . ’ |
| 29 | He is even weighed down with bracelets and anklets , to discourage him from floating up again too soon . |
| 30 | But the fact that he 's a born racer , I mean I know him quite well , I 've seen him around a lot , I would talk to him a lot , so would other colleagues here , every race since that decision , I think without trying , he persuaded himself , we were able to persuade him without trying too hard that maybe he should reconsider ; I think time did the rest . |