Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , Farbrace found his way blocked by Steve Marsh 's superior batting and duly followed ‘ Nobby ’ to Lord 's , where the same handicap has consigned him to 2nd XI obscurity . |
| 2 | The press scoffed at his walks in the Kalahari Desert , at his fascination with lost and ancient tribes ; but experiences like that , plus a lifetime of travelling all over the world , seeing underdeveloped and overdeveloped countries and every kind of political regime , has brought him to this viewpoint . |
| 3 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 4 | In terms of his career , Bristol Rovers ' FA Cup tie at Aston Villa on Saturday is Allison 's last ride on a footballing roller coaster that has delivered him to gravity-defying heights and suicidal lows . |
| 5 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 6 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 7 | They can not imagine him as a Prime Minister , and they can not imagine that the British public can be persuaded to elect him to that post . |
| 8 | Could she have treated him to similar displays of ill will as she showed her daughter ? |
| 9 | It could and should have led him to great opportunities . |
| 10 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 11 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 12 | His success in summoning up the devil he knew blinded him to any awareness of his own part in bringing about the final outcome . |
| 13 | Henry 's wholehearted displays in such a variety of roles , allied to his self-effacing modesty , combined to endear him to all Palace fans of the mid-1980s . |
| 14 | And I spring out of bed , naked as I am , and I just start to tear him to fucking pieces . |
| 15 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 16 | Should he mirror his international form at St James ' Park , manager Kevin Keegan may be tempted to restore him to first choice goalkeeper . |
| 17 | Confronting Nubenehem with his problem , she had introduced him to another customer of the City of Dreams , an elderly papermaster with flaccid skin and a bald pate ringed with long , dank hair . |
| 18 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 19 | He is now on his eighth passport , having left England 82 times on trips that have taken him to most countries in the world . |
| 20 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 21 | Mayer 's power was in having the patience to wait until Gilbert 's contract with Metro ran out and then refuse to sign him to another term . |