Example sentences of "and [v-ing] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana ran after him , catching his arm and bringing him to a standstill . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll make it a quick wash then , shall we ? ’ she asked , kissing his warm round face and pressing him to her . |
| 4 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 5 | And , just over the hill at North Stainmore , at Dummah Hill , Great-Uncle Isaac Bayles was looking after Daddy , and training him to be a farmer . |
| 6 | He could n't tell a woman like Maggie Byrne that thoughts of Sarah were blighting his relationship with his wife , and turning him to celibacy . |
| 7 | The Doctor ran for cover , grabbing the poet 's sleeve and pulling him to the side . |
| 8 | If you are thinking about it talking person to person remember the guy on the building site remember the woman who 's pregnant and trying to sell insurance and getting him to he should have been securing his family welfare and so on . |
| 9 | He has the right , which he should exercise to the full , of reading his master 's papers and accompanying him to court . |
| 10 | The 30-year-old victim was using a public lavatory in Leyton , east London , shortly before 6am when the two men struck , pushing him into a cubicle and subjecting him to what Scotland Yard called a ‘ serious sexual assault ’ . |
| 11 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 12 | It follows that it would not be possible to prejudice an unwelcome shareholder by engineering a proposed buy-out and committing him to an unwanted mandatory offer obligation . |
| 13 | In 797 Alcuin wrote to Cenwulf praising his goodness and nobility and exhorting him to be a model Christian king . |
| 14 | And asking him to supper was the only way she could do this . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the first case of its kind since the introduction of that offence by the USSR Supreme Soviet on May 14 , 1990 , she pleaded guilty to charges that on several occasions she had insulted Gorbachev , for example by calling him a " fascist criminal " and comparing him to Hitler . |
| 17 | In November 1991 , senior partner Ian Brindle wrote a letter to Senator Kerry offering to cooperate with the investigation and inviting him to London . |
| 18 | The local emphasis more often needs to be on the candidate , getting his name , face , personality and position known in the community and introducing him to key groups of people . |
| 19 | The wounded bird plummeted to earth like a dive-bomber , its beak piercing G. F. Westerby 's chest and pinning him to the ground . |
| 20 | Not with the shaft of a golf club driven through his neck and pinning him to the wooden floor . |
| 21 | ‘ Come to find me ? ’ she repeated , reaching down to grip his arm and heaving him to his feet . |