Example sentences of "[verb] him to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sudden smile transformed him to an astonishing degree , revealing the man behind the remote consultant . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat , and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency . |
| 4 | ( Harry Chapman was no longer with the club , ill health forcing him to an early retirement . ) |
| 5 | The boy or girl was not ‘ a blank piece of paper on which the teacher should write ’ , and it was in this liberal spirit that he condemned drill : ‘ Military drill fashions him to an approved standard as part of the machine ; whereas the aim of Scouting is to develop his personal character and initiative . ’ |
| 6 | Long before New York 's Whitney Museum mounts its own assessment in 1994 , the present exhibition introduces him to an European audience . |
| 7 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 8 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 9 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 10 | Your son 's teacher should be able to refer him to an educational psychologist who 'll try to find out why he acts as he does , and how he can be helped . |
| 11 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 12 | Wheeler motioned him to an easy chair and made to put away the handsome leatherbound notebook in which he had been writing . |
| 13 | Pinza ran only once more , Gordon Richards partnering him to an easy victory in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot ; Aureole was again second . |
| 14 | Coughlin says North 's only constructive contribution to Waite 's Lebanon mission had been to introduce him to an undercover agent working in Lebanon for British and American intelligence . |