Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 2 | Yesterday , her other son , Gary , 3 , was at home because she has decided never to bring him to the Strand again . |
| 3 | Almost every afternoon when Charlie was at school he turned up to take him to the studio to rehearse with his band . |
| 4 | ‘ Too refined , ’ Julia explained didactically and pressed on to introduce him to the black and white humbug types labelled British Alpines , standing next to the skewbald variety called British Toggenbergs . |
| 5 | I truly did mean just to ride him to the nearest hamlet . |
| 6 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
| 7 | Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public . |
| 8 | This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed . |
| 9 | He suspected that Bishop Jon , who guessed , and Tuathal , who knew , had long discussed how to lead him to the state of proper sanctity in which a king should dwell . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of the problems perceived in Dr Ting 's autocratic management was that it does not endear him to the more easy-going American physicists ; and there were few large American institutions taking part in L* . |
| 12 | His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so . |