Example sentences of "he [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Richard Branson wants to run trains , let him build a network and , and compete against a properly funded British Rail . |
| 2 | He was the biggest man in Polruan was Uncle Harry , a real giant of a man and once she had seen him knock a child over by mistake when all he had meant to do was cuff him playfully on the ear . |
| 3 | ‘ At one stage when he was at United I was asked to go and help him seek a settlement after a specialist 's report said his knees would n't last another 12 months ! ’ |
| 4 | But no one would let him buy a drink so I ended up not spending a ha'penny . |
| 5 | ‘ He would say she had never even let him buy a sock , before . |
| 6 | MATRIARCH Emma Funnell has banished Andrew Jones , husband of her great grand-daughter Peggy , from her Bramble House home after learning that he has swindled the car firm of thousands , helping him buy a house for his mistress , Rosie Milburn . |
| 7 | Hughes had asked him if he would help him steal a lorry . |
| 8 | Mr O'Donnell said he had agreed to go with McPherson on the night of his ordeal to help him steal a van from Tarbert . |
| 9 | ‘ James MacDiarmid will be expecting us , so we will let him stew a bit . |
| 10 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |
| 11 | They heard him give a cry of wonder from the other side and followed him . |
| 12 | I ca n't let him organize a search party . |
| 13 | Years later he said being called Boy was a disaster because as an old man of fifty it made him feel a fool . |
| 14 | Waiters made him feel a fool , this clever man . |
| 15 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 16 | Makes him feel a bit comfy . |
| 17 | It made him feel a lot better . |
| 18 | He was half turned towards her , and Maria saw him lift a hand and watched it move towards her , coming to rest against her bare midriff , warm fingers shaping themselves lightly to its gentle curve . |
| 19 | My mate was over seventy , so I could n't let him lift a horse 's foot after ‘ knocking-off ’ time : I actually shoed the two horses . |
| 20 | He 'd be stuck there with Terry and Tom sitting as close to him as their chains would allow , hardly letting him finish a thought before jumping in with an idea that took them miles away from Brian 's original argument . |
| 21 | These somewhat academic findings are not very helpful to the mother whose child has begged her to let him watch a gangster film or to buy him a plastic ‘ death-ray gun ’ for Christmas . |
| 22 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 23 | I have n't decided yet , but I 'm considering letting him do a year with one of the best dressage riders . |
| 24 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 25 | It was decided not to try to smuggle Hess out on the courier run , although the idea of making him do a parachute drop at his age seemed risky and wrong-headed to the Englishman , if not malicious . |
| 26 | He did not suspect whose money was helping him become a partner . |
| 27 | And he simply could not think of anything that might have made him become a Muslim . |
| 28 | I long to see him become a Giant . |
| 29 | It had obviously been touched up , exaggerating the waves in his dark hair , making him look a masher and younger than he was — just the thing to attract the lady patients . |
| 30 | A week later , while he was out jogging , he encountered the Commy old bat who had put the card in the flowers and made him look a fool to Viola . |