Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] him to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth gave him a push , which almost toppled him to the ground ! |
| 2 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 3 | She never invited him to the jolly ones . |
| 4 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |
| 5 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
| 6 | Embedded in the wood , it momentarily skewered him to the window-frame . |