Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 2 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 3 | The mailed hand in his kept hold firmly enough to draw him down to his knees as its owner sank back into the turf . |
| 4 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 5 | But she 'd obviously brought him round to her way of thinking . |
| 6 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 7 | There are times , however , when even that motivation is not enough to push him on to success and the Spartathlon is the perfect example . |
| 8 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 9 | Shall I just send him along to Rosie 's pharmacy for some diarrhoea mixture ? ’ |
| 10 | I finally tracked him down to Antwerp . ’ |
| 11 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 12 | When all is said and done , this is just a straightforward crime and we would n't normally put him on to something like this . ’ |
| 13 | and we can just poddle him along to everything we do , just , I mean it 's , you know we can do things in the garden , we can do things round the house we do n't have to lay out anything special do we ? |
| 14 | I think we 're just gon na have to let him moan I would n't mind , but until last weekend , he never give a dickie bird about going to sleep I think it was that came in and set him off she should 've just left him on to it instead of trying to do it herself |
| 15 | The abbot can scarcely let him out to her except with guarantees for his return . ’ |
| 16 | Only then would he decide whether or not to take him back to our glorious green Earth . |
| 17 | Iago soon brings him back to the ‘ foul ’ image : ‘ I will chop her into messes — cuckold me ! ’ |
| 18 | They , no doubt confused beyond belief , gratefully passed him on to the Americans |
| 19 | CAN anyone tell me why : I can put the water on for a bath , pop out and come home to find HIM up to his ears in it uninvited . |
| 20 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 21 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 22 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 23 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 24 | Well I think that 's quite I mean I 'd probably knock him down to a hundred anyway . |
| 25 | Vologsky punched out a sequence on the computer panel , which automatically locked him in to the local frequency . |
| 26 | She can nae take him in to the dentists till she gets rid of them . |
| 27 | Alexandra now lifted him on to her lap , where he immediately settled , plugged his thumb into his mouth and gazed pityingly down at his brothers and sister . |
| 28 | We have now got him down to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . |
| 29 | Not only had we beaten him on the ridge , but without cars we had unwittingly beaten him back to the hotel . |
| 30 | Feeling her body respond again , she slowly rolled him on to his back . |