Example sentences of "him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death . |
| 2 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 3 | Wölflinn was Burckhardt 's successor as professor at Basel , but his later successful career took him to Berlin , Munich and Zürich , a major art historian whose interests were primarily in the Renaissance and the Baroque . |
| 4 | One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person . |
| 5 | His sisters were to flee the family , precipitating an ordeal of severance which compounded others and marked him to the quick . |
| 6 | Poor Charles brings him to life again , however , for some further plagiarisms : a nest of antique-dealers , of antic disposition , in Chatterton 's native Bristol , have passed to Charles a cache of papers which , together with the discovery of what seems to be the portrait of an adult Chatterton , persuades him that the poet lived on . |
| 7 | In books and interviews he has reminded the world that the French Surrealist poet Aragon , having praised Kundera 's excellent novel The Joke in 1968 , and having fulminated against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia — his legs would ‘ refuse ’ to take him to Russia any more — made it to Moscow four years later ; and that another French poet , Eluard , abandoned his Prague friend , the Surrealist Kalandra , to the executioner . |
| 8 | Mandelstam 's lyric about the ‘ Kremlin mountaineer ’ — Klima 's ‘ great Generalissimo ’ , Stalin — sent him to the camps . |
| 9 | The Ethiopian book , published in Britain in 1983 , showed him to be a writer interested in ‘ autocrats ’ — in absolute power and in the transformation of that power into its indistinguishable opposite . |
| 10 | It will be difficult for him to be baleful about the Millennium . |
| 11 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 12 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 13 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 14 | Mr Eames was just getting up , convinced that juniors and upstarts were usurping the stage and it was time for him to be where the action was , when he was interrupted by the bell . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 16 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 17 | I would not let him eat anything canned or frozen , I spoilt him to pieces . |
| 18 | Every family with a young man knows they may lose him to the war , and they are as furious about it as a swarm of bees . |
| 19 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 20 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 21 | Why should he feel that they had bred him to disappointment ? |
| 22 | She exhorted him to ‘ follow your little heart ’ ; it was much more difficult for her to do so , and it showed . |
| 23 | I directed him to the corner where I knew the compost heap was . |
| 24 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 25 | She loses her wings and dies , leaving him to be cursed by Madge . |
| 26 | When the Queen of the Wilis commands Giselle to rise and dance him to his death , so strong is. her love that she helps him to dance until cockcrow when he will survive . |
| 27 | One typically frenetic four-day jaunt took him to Pontresino in the Alps to find Eritrichium nanum , ‘ King of the Alps ’ ( on the way home Evan 's chauffeur , the Snowdonia Park Head Warden John Ellis Reports , had to navigate by road-signs and instinct , Evan having filled the road atlas with pressed flower-heads of more common species ) . |
| 28 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 29 | The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends . |
| 30 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |