Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] him to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or delivered him to a house in that vicinity ? |
| 2 | It was this very vision that drew him to a man with whom he had so little in common besides . |
| 3 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |
| 4 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 5 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 6 | Dana ran after him , catching his arm and bringing him to a standstill . |
| 7 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 8 | Police immediately arrested a young man and pinned him to a trolley , stifling his shouts about unemployment . |
| 9 | They nodded and invited him to a meeting . |
| 10 | Seeing him kissing you , I felt such a murderous rage that I wanted to storm in and beat him to a pulp . |
| 11 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 12 | They bundled him into a car and drove him to a car park at the rear of Dysart Police Headquarters and afterwards to an isolated road . |
| 13 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 14 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 15 | Later , people would come along , dig him up and remove him to a more permanent resting place where the vicar would say a few words and it would all be over , except for those who remembered him . |
| 16 | Teodor , with good-humoured exasperation , picked him up and handed him to a footman . |
| 17 | The FSLN and Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , the influential presidency minister , both accused Godoy of fomenting political unrest and linked him to a current mobilization of several hundred former contra rebels [ see below ] . |
| 18 | I smiled obediently at this never-before-heard witticism , and followed him to a tank of Koi . |
| 19 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 20 | John Ferrar knew Little Gidding to be too notorious to be safe , and guided him to a private house nearby . |
| 21 | Rohan took his arm and guided him to a sofa . |
| 22 | Uncle Bill let out a yell and kicked him away , then he snapped on Captain 's lead and tied him to a chair in the corner of the kitchen . |
| 23 | Corbett immediately recognised de Craon , who rose as he entered , gave a half-mocking bow and waved him to a stool . |
| 24 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 25 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 26 | Lisa smiled a small smile and treated him to a taste of the kind of evasiveness of which he himself was such a master . |
| 27 | On that Tuesday morning my mother came with the doctor and took him to a spare bedroom , leaving the door ajar . |
| 28 | The boy helped Oliver to his feet , and took him to a pub . |
| 29 | Ken bought him a train ticket , put some cash in his hand and took him to a nearby restaurant |
| 30 | Roger was a keen walker , cyclist and backpacker before a sleepy driver knocked him off his bike and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life . |