Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edgar put out the ageing Donald 's eyes and consigned him to prison . |
| 2 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 3 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 4 | Scott grabbed him by the lapels and hauled him to his feet . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 7 | I wipe my lips and follow him to the door . |
| 8 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 9 | When disaster strikes , you call Europ Assistance , who will contact one of its contractors and send him to your home , usually within two hours . |
| 10 | Vi jumped to her feet and followed him to the door of the church , wincing in the sweet , cold air . |
| 11 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 12 | Despite the happy family photos that appeared in the fan magazines , childhood days were miserable days for Joe who said that his dad never held him in his lap and read him stories or took him to ball games . |
| 13 | Like many supposed puppets , Mr Castro learnt to tug on the strings that tied him to his masters ' hands . |
| 14 | Judaism and Islam could be called polytheistic religions in the sense that they do contain traditions that represent Jews and Moslems as called upon to choose one of several gods and follow Him to the exclusion of others . |
| 15 | to restrict the buyer 's remedies ( e.g. to prevent him from rejecting the goods and to confine him to damages for breach of condition ) ; |
| 16 | Magistrates at Milton Keynes found Paul Stellato who 's twenty two guilty of handling stolen goods and sentenced him to three months in jail . |
| 17 | Magistrates at Milton Keynes found Paul Stellato who 's twenty two guilty of handling stolen goods and sentenced him to three months in jail . |
| 18 | Magistrates at Milton Keynes found Paul Stellato who 's twenty two guilty of handling stolen goods and sentenced him to three months in jail . |
| 19 | Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death . |
| 20 | She rushed over to him , gathered him in her arms and held him to her . |
| 21 | His horrible wont was to envelop his victim with his wings and suffocate him to death . |
| 22 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The simplest of jobs can be done with panache ’ , he would instruct whenever one of his staff fell short of his standards of perfection — the standards that endeared him to his ‘ Shiny Set ’ customers and staff alike . |
| 24 | At this range the flaws that reduced him to humanity , and a fairly limited humanity at that , were plain to be seen : the stubble of coarse reddish beard he had n't bothered to shave , the roughness of his weathered skin over the immaculate but brutal bones , the inlaid indifference of the blue eyes . |
| 25 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 26 | Whitlock sprung to his feet and caught him on the side of the head with a stinging haymaker then followed up with two brutal body punches that dropped him to his knees . |
| 27 | An undated ducal warrant survives ordering William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough to meet Gloucester at Doncaster with eight horses and accompany him to London . |
| 28 | An undated ducal warrant survives ordering William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough to meet Gloucester at Doncaster with eight horses and accompany him to London . |
| 29 | His sisters were to flee the family , precipitating an ordeal of severance which compounded others and marked him to the quick . |
| 30 | He has the right , which he should exercise to the full , of reading his master 's papers and accompanying him to court . |