Example sentences of "him to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His sisters were to flee the family , precipitating an ordeal of severance which compounded others and marked him to the quick . |
| 3 | Mandelstam 's lyric about the ‘ Kremlin mountaineer ’ — Klima 's ‘ great Generalissimo ’ , Stalin — sent him to the camps . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I directed him to the corner where I knew the compost heap was . |
| 7 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 8 | We rushed him to the veterinary hospital , where he was given an antidote which should have worked within 20 minutes . |
| 9 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 10 | He then directs him to the message to the angel of the church at Laodicea in the third chapter of Revelation . |
| 11 | Gerald Graff , in Professing Literature , is sympathetic to Scholes 's approach , quoting him to the effect that what we call skill in reading involves ‘ a knowledge of the codes that were operative in the composition of any given text and the historical situation in which it was composed . ’ |
| 12 | Secondly , Sir Angus was barely a year out of the Civil Service after a career which had taken him to the chairmanship of the Customs and Excise . |
| 13 | Reputedly Hong Kong 's highest-paid barrister before politics began to consume virtually all his time , he has many fans among other lawyers , who elected him to the Legislative Council in 1985 and 1988 as their profession 's representative . |
| 14 | His service in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War took him to the Middle East , and there he was able to develop his interest in military architecture through the study of the citadel at Damascus , and the siege of the crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers . |
| 15 | One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police . |
| 16 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 17 | ENO , I am glad to say , is proud to be dismissed by him to the purgatory reserved for this despicable activity , and more than 450,000 people pass through our doors each year to prove it . |
| 18 | Olazabal 's finish hauled him to the top of the European order of merit . |
| 19 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 20 | He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet . |
| 21 | The other half of it lies in mobilising party and public support sufficiently strongly to leave Mrs Thatcher with no choice but to readmit him to the Cabinet if the Tories do return to office after the next election . |
| 22 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
| 23 | The body had been covered by a thin layer of soil as was the practice when a soldier was killed in action and there was no time to move him to the rear . |
| 24 | They followed him to the study because for economy it was the only fire in the house , but he worked through their conversation and did not join it . |
| 25 | They sent him to the King 's College Choir School . |
| 26 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 27 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 28 | It introduced him to the human race . |
| 29 | It introduced him to the bizarre situation that Churches treated each other worse than they treated anyone else ; and to the recognition that the reason for this was not religious but racial . |
| 30 | For an unintelligible speaker to learn to speak intelligibly , it may not be the best training , and certainly it is not the only training , to send him to the pulpit of Boston parish church . |