Example sentences of "[verb] him to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Send him to a regional office ? ’ |
| 2 | Simultaneously the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] drew him to the Catholic Church , into which he was received in 1846 . |
| 3 | A family connection with the lord chancellor , John , Baron Somers [ q.v. ] , drew him to the Whig side in politics , but he was no slavish follower of a party . |
| 4 | Maisie snorted and , following the sound of his voice , traced him to the wooden bench . |
| 5 | His sudden smile transformed him to an astonishing degree , revealing the man behind the remote consultant . |
| 6 | In the early hours of Thursday morning , the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut . |
| 7 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
| 8 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 9 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 10 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Soviets have now transferred him to a Labour Camp . ’ |
| 12 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 13 | The challenge drove him to a healthy distraction , and he was still occupied with it at three thirty in the morning , when the telephone rang . |
| 14 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 15 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 16 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 17 | HEROL Graham 's reign as British middleweight champion ended last night as Bradford 's Frank Grant blasted him to a ninth-round defeat at Elland Road , Leeds . |
| 18 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
| 19 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 20 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 21 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 22 | Fifteen years later a man of 76 , thinking he would like to try satellite television , collected the requisite number of newspaper coupons which would entitle him to a 30-day trial of a satellite dish . |
| 23 | Should any fellow be passing by , he must refuse their invitation or else they will dance him to a watery grave . |
| 24 | ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’ |
| 25 | Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore . |
| 26 | Creed directed him to a narrow sidestreet . |
| 27 | The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat , and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency . |
| 28 | The opening door recalled him to the present situation . |
| 29 | Half of her could n't wait to escape from him , to relegate him to a past memory , enjoyable at the time but without consequence — like Tivoli … a temporary pleasuring of the senses but insubstantial … åd the other half ? |
| 30 | ( Harry Chapman was no longer with the club , ill health forcing him to an early retirement . ) |