Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 2 | However , it will take several hundred pounds in vet bills to restore him to good health . |
| 3 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 4 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 5 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 6 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 7 | James 's increasing financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures . |
| 8 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 9 | A series of publications subjecting him to merciless ridicule appeared in 1691 — note the date . |
| 10 | More often , an executive 's contract entitles him to private use of his car . |
| 11 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 12 | He was a weak , cowardly man , she reflected , who wanted to be popular with everyone , yet whose deep insecurity drove him to self-righteous pomposity and chill cruelty . |
| 13 | Klein , who denied the reports linking him to Colombian drug dealers , was committed for trial on June 1 , 1990 , charged with illegally exporting Israeli military expertise . |
| 14 | He was amused by Claire 's attempts to introduce him to attractive women . |
| 15 | His sister invariably had the power to restore him to good humour . |
| 16 | This sense of perspective led him to lucid conclusions about the inescapable reality of decolonization and the long-term interests of France , which were better served by accepting decolonization than by resisting it . |