Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October Mozart 's English friends tried to persuade him to join them in England the following spring . |
| 2 | Our task now is to work to persuade him to reverse them as soon as possible , so that legal aid can once again serve its purpose of enabling all those unable to afford legal advice and representation to have access to justice ’ . |
| 3 | The law should not encourage B to yield to the threat but should seek to persuade him to resist it . |
| 4 | Crowds watched as court staff and police tried to grab him to stop him plunging 30ft on to spiked railings . |
| 5 | She tried to get him to let her check in the bar first . |
| 6 | I am not a street fighter , I do n't need to hate him to beat him . |
| 7 | This slightly unusual speech pattern seemed to enable him to address her directly . |
| 8 | Well , she 'd badgered him to let her come along ; she could take cold , muddied feet and be thankful it was n't worse . |
| 9 | Much more to the point , why had n't he said he knew Charlotte Hanover when she 'd asked him to accompany her here this evening ? |
| 10 | He 'd woken that morning , lying beside Vanessa with a hard-on she 'd wanted him to pleasure her with , and had stupidly refused her , knowing he had a liaison with Martine that afternoon . |
| 11 | Should 've got him to do it first . |
| 12 | Thirty first leave a blank cos I forgot to ask him to sign it . |
| 13 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 14 | The therapist may encourage him to practise taking off clothes by himself , having helped him to put them on , to build up his awareness and confidence . |
| 15 | But she would have preferred him to admire her from the beginning , without the encouragement of her valentine . |
| 16 | If I can find him I 'll try to persuade him to visit her too . ’ |
| 17 | Darren Kerry bought his house for sixty three thousand pounds with two brothers but after losing his job he fell behind with his mortage payments … he begged Citibank , with whom he had the loan to reduce the payment … he even found a buyer prepared to pay sixty three thousand pounds … but with interest he then owed sixty five thousand pounds … and Citibank apparently refused to allow him to sell it … |
| 18 | Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’ |
| 19 | Salisbury 's son-in-law , had declared for Parliament , and this again may have encouraged him to join them . |
| 20 | so , so then Anita goes , no I go tell him to put it in a letter then , yeah , and he was gon na put it in a letter and then he changed his mind and he said he was gon na ask me after school , but then he did n't ask me after school and Kate gave him my phone number and then he phoned me |
| 21 | I then try to get him to do it , if I do n't discover it by accident . |
| 22 | ‘ Now that you realize Herr Sanders was not at fault , do you intend to ask him to reach you Dutch again ? ’ |
| 23 | And here came ‘ Space Oddity ’ which was coinciding with men landing on the moon , which is what I think inspired him to write it , there is no question about it . |
| 24 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 25 | My father claims that he cut the animal open and found my tiny genitals in its stomach , but I never did get him to tell me what he did with them . |
| 26 | He had not seen her since she had attacked him to stop him hitting Oliver . |
| 27 | She had expected him to leave her but he stayed watching her quietly , picking a biscuit off the plate himself , sharing her milk when she offered him the glass . |
| 28 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 29 | I had recommended him to say he was considering his position and no more . |
| 30 | The workmen had offered him ear plugs but his commanding officer had forbidden him to wear them . |