Example sentences of "him to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter was a magnificent , driving , defensive midfielder , whose whole-hearted commitment to the club endeared him to every Palace fan . |
| 2 | Bob Roberts himself is a monster never quite accessible to the cameras or us , vilifiable only by off-the-cuff remarks ( ‘ Do n't take crack , kids … it 's a ghetto drug ’ ) , and opposed only by Bugs Raplin ( Esposito ) , a wired outsider-hack linking him to every scandal of the '80s in a string of fact-filled rants . |
| 3 | His letter is minuted tersely in Heath 's hand : ‘ They could invite him to every meeting as consultant . |
| 4 | He puts the case for Xanthippe ( aka Mrs Socrates ) , whose husband 's ‘ homosexual leanings , his absent-minded behaviour , his idleness and his love of proving everyone wrong would have endeared him to no wife of mettle . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 7 | The perplexed driver took him to a police station — which then contacted Steve . |
| 8 | A tug on it sounds a buzzer in the driver 's cab and brings him to a halt . |
| 9 | In January 1945 he was arrested in Krakow by the Gestapo but managed to escape from the transport taking him to a concentration camp . |
| 10 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Returning to camp the debrief reveals an interesting sighting of a suspected IRA member , but this information on its own is of little significance , as there is no evidence to link him to a crime . |
| 13 | She takes him to a tailor ( hence the gorgeous green suit and bowler hat ) , hires a tutor and even buys him a car . |
| 14 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 15 | She had just taken him to a psychiatrist who among many searching questions had asked the five-year-old : ‘ If your sister is a girl , what is your brother ? ’ |
| 16 | Fill him up with food and booze , direct him to a warm room and then pray hard . |
| 17 | It was this more than anything that impelled Havel into active opposition , and there 's little doubt that it 's his reputation as a truth-teller , a man whose word is to be trusted , that most commends him to a nation recovering from constitutional mendacity . |
| 18 | ‘ Send him to a regional office ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , by Wednesday I 'm clear of the Committee , and I could take him to a Regional Office . |
| 20 | Kathleen Claar , custodian of the Last Indian Raid Museum in Oberlin , Kansas , took him to a small cemetery to show him the grave of her husband and of Rick Read , the last man lynched in the state . |
| 21 | Even then , Lloyd went down fighting with 72 in his last innings ; it took him to a total of 7,515 runs at 46 , with nineteen centuries . |
| 22 | Take him to a dog 's home , shoot him ? |
| 23 | Perhaps Eleanor was strong enough to force Gina out of his life and house , and help him to a new beginning . |
| 24 | The men motioned me to go away , and after they had looked at Jordi 's papers I saw them escort him to a car . |
| 25 | I took him to a nearby café . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's not my fancy man — it 's Tumbleweed , ’ I explained , leading him to a chair at the table . |
| 27 | If the knots wo n't come out with that then she must take him to a professional grooming salon where the knots will be removed safely and painlessly . |
| 28 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |
| 29 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 30 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |