Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker 's sanitary reports on the cholera in Tyneside , and on housing and environmental conditions in Leeds , included a use of maps which brought him to wider notice . |
| 2 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 3 | Just as importantly , he is possessed of a generosity of mind which allows him to be calmly judicious about the merits of writers who can advocate militant homosexuality and drug-taking ( such as Thom Gunn ) , sympathise with feminism ( Elaine Feinstein ) or adhere to some variant of Marxism ( Hugh MacDiarmid ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps his father had the kind of job which took him to many parts of the country , and possibly he took the boy with him , I do not know . |
| 5 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |
| 6 | Buck 's other contacts include an ageing hooker whom he mistakes for a society woman ( ‘ I 'm one gorgeous chick , ’ says the ungorgeous non-chicken Sylvia Miles ) ; two weak and whining homosexual pick-ups ; and a couple of weirdos who invite him to an ‘ underground ’ party . |
| 7 | The mention of suspension is of interest : that the cause of it — truancy — is not only a 20th century phenomenon is shown by the next paragraph of the Report : " The parent of George Highton who had been suspended on account of frequent absence attended by order of the Deputation and stated that he had 3 boys in the School and that the one complained of was so refractory as to be beyond his management and would not attend as he should , frequently persuading his Brothers to follow his example and having gone into service he wished him to be dismissed , which was done , and the parent was informed that if the other two were not more regular in their attendance they would also be discharged . " |
| 8 | The general advisory council , which helps the board of governors on policy , met yesterday and strongly criticised Mr Hussey for hiring Mr Birt under conditions which allowed him to be paid as a freelance , thus avoiding tax . |
| 9 | Hudson suggests that the reason the more conformist pupils tend to choose science is that science allows the convergent schoolboy to ‘ specialise in work which enables him to be unambiguously right or wrong ’ . |
| 10 | In fact nothing binds him to life . |
| 11 | In fact she called him to her dressing room after the performance and all but ordered him to leave his normal persona behind . |
| 12 | He found no difficulty in signing the engagement drawn up by Parliament which bound him to be faithful to a commonwealth without king and House of Lords . |