Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dušan 's ambition led him to aspire to the throne of Byzantium . |
| 2 | The MPs , leaders of Britain 's cross-party peace group New Consensus , wrote to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams challenging him to appeal to the IRA to halt its campaign of violence . |
| 3 | While on Hainan Island , he received a telegram from Beijing urging him to return to the capital . |
| 4 | Before his second visit , in November 1978 , Brezinski asked him to come to the White House to meet Carter , Secretary of state Cyrus Vance , and Stansfield Turner , the director of the CIA . |
| 5 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 6 | At the same time , he suffered another severe bout of his recurring illness , and his friends persuaded him to move to the country for a while for the sake of his health as well as his liberty . |
| 7 | ( 177 ) The police got him to confess to the crime . |
| 8 | ‘ Then will you men tell him to speak to the farm manager ? ’ said Bathsheba in a businesslike way , as she rode off . |
| 9 | A debtor has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay a debt if the debt is not immediately payable and : ( i ) the petitioning creditor has served on the debtor a statutory demand in the prescribed form requiring him to establish to the satisfaction of the creditor that there is a reasonable prospect that the debtor will be able to pay the debt when it falls due , ( ii ) at least three weeks have elapsed since the demand was served , and ( iii ) the demand has neither been complied with nor set aside ( s268(2) ) . |
| 10 | Paragraph 8. 10 ( c ) of the PAC 's 1981 report , The Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General , stated that the present arrangements for the financial audit of nationalized industries should continue but that the C & AG should have access to the books and records of these bodies in order to enable him to report to the House of Commons ( paragraph 4.16 — 4.19 ) . |
| 11 | But a prodigious memory enabled him to retain to the end of his life a total recall , whether of a text of scripture or a line of the Iliad or a passage in Plato 's Dialogues . |
| 12 | Now it was possible for a settlor who conveyed land to A to direct him to hold to the use of B ; and then to direct that , on the happening of an event , e.g. B 's marriage , B's use should shift to C. This use in favour of C was a shifting use . |
| 13 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 14 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |