Example sentences of "[vb infin] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , his victory last season with Ten Plus when there were only four runners , convinced me his chaser would win him another Gold Cup , a race he must have won had he not fallen at that fatal third fence from home . |
| 2 | So the fact that , like all Sir Hugh Dundas 's friends and admirers , I would love to see Ghofar win him today 's Martell Grand National does not , unfortunately , mean it will happen . |
| 3 | Come Thursday , such fairmindedness will surely win him votes among vegetables everywhere . |
| 4 | They had no idea that his old world manners and charm would win him the love of the most eligible divorcee in the land , the Princess Royal , Princess Anne . |
| 5 | Jack 's magnificent start with the Eagles could win him a dramatic recall for Australia in next month 's World Cup final against Great Britain . |
| 6 | It would win him few friends in the offices of Century , few cosy evenings with his subordinates in the clubland of Mayfair . |
| 7 | Activity in these roles absorbs most of his time and energy : it will win him the popularity essential to his reelection . |
| 8 | Maybe she could win him over . |
| 9 | She must win him round . |
| 10 | It might even win him what he knew , in his heart , he wanted . |
| 11 | Dr Dering declined this contemptible compensation , and risked crippling legal costs on a trial which he hoped would win him heavy damages . |
| 12 | Mr Robert Sheldon , chairman of the committee , has said the committee might consider him attending . |
| 13 | ‘ But you would n't investigate anyone else , because you would definitely consider him guilty . ’ |
| 14 | Rather than treating the foreign investor as a rival , we should consider him a valuable helper , for he increases our production and the efficiencies of our business . |
| 15 | He 'd played in some eminently forgettable horror movies and I felt I could not seriously consider him . |
| 16 | I mean , I do n't swallow everything Morrissey says but I 'll always consider him worth listening to . ’ |
| 17 | No young woman would consider him now , and quite right too ! |
| 18 | He says modestly that he ‘ got into rather an idle way ’ , but Wordsworth 's way of ‘ idling ’ offers little comfort to those who might consider him as a precedent for their own incapacity . |
| 19 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 20 | He did not know of the English habit of using such affectionate epithets rather haphazardly , and he was impressed that she should consider him her dear . |
| 21 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
| 22 | Still , he thought , as long as Richmann considered him a superstitious peasant , he would n't consider him a threat . |
| 23 | She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … ) |
| 24 | She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds . |
| 25 | ‘ You ca n't consider him seriously . ’ |
| 26 | We shall even consider him in whatever new role he has at the time . |
| 27 | But he 's a long way to go before I 'd consider him a success . |
| 28 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 29 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 30 | He 's not exactly Douglas Fairbanks , but some might consider him handsome . ’ |