Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] to his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 2 | THE man responsible for uncovering South Africa 's hit-squad scandal , the condemned security branch policeman Almond Nofomela , is being brought to court tomorrow by the authorities who are seemingly intent on hurrying him on to his postponed appointment with the hangman . |
| 3 | THE CRYING GAME Irish director Neil Jordan 's latest film takes him back to his best territory , the shadowy world of terrorism , crime and sexual deviance . |
| 4 | If you have between you driven him back to his old ways , your souls will bear a heavy charge on the Day of Judgement ! ’ |
| 5 | It is this mixture of compliance and argumentativeness which not only bores and irritates Belville but actually drives him back to his old pursuits — drinking and lechery . |
| 6 | Weller plays the Burroughs character , a roach-exterminator whose wife , played by Judy Davis , turns him on to his own insecticide . |
| 7 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 8 | Palmer now thought about testing the idea , and this brought him back to his original thoughts about the helium . |
| 9 | They took him back to his own house and shut him upstairs while they sat below and deliberated what to do with him . |
| 10 | Never , ’ she defended , then added thoughtfully , ‘ However , if you do get him back to his old city life , you 'll know he 's doing it for you , and you 'll be assured that he really loves you . ’ |
| 11 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 12 | He had been pathetically shy and awkward , and one particularly painful experience had sent him back to his lonely flat with the firm belief that he would die a bachelor . |
| 13 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |