Example sentences of "[verb] him to his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 2 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 3 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 4 | Their secret organizations had long planned a revolution ; it took place on 18 September 1885 , when the Turkish governor-general was expelled , and a telegram sent to Prince Alexander welcomed him to his new realm . |
| 5 | The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains . |
| 6 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 7 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 8 | It was in the course of his translation work that he received in 1790 the stimulus which led him to his radical rethink of medical treatment . |
| 9 | However , when a one-time tenant called to say his possessions had been seized to pay his debts , Sheridan gave him the £300 which the man said would restore him to his former state . |
| 10 | The first casualty of the match was , for a change , a West Indian fast bowler , when Marshall fractured his left thumb trying to stop a shot from Broad ; yet even this worked against England , for it simply inspired him to his best Test figures when he bowled in the second innings . |
| 11 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 12 | When the roaring giant of a tube train came , the fag sucker suddenly withdrew his double-buckled shoes from the concrete and became a little scuttling pixie to compete with all the other scuttling pixies , but managed a further quick change to a hunched-up half-shut-marble-eyed frowny scowling monkey as he took his tense unrest out on the floor of the tube train that was carrying him to his necessary employment . |
| 13 | He later admitted the loan stretched him to his financial limit . |
| 14 | It was rumoured that Pott would not allow the bearers to take him to his own hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , believing he would fare better elsewhere . |
| 15 | Your spirits may be a little duller and your wits a little brighter to-morrow , ’ said Isambard tolerantly , and left him to his uneasy solitude . |
| 16 | He devoted much effort over many years to restoring him to his rightful place in the chemical hierarchy . |