Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 2 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 3 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The FSLN and Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , the influential presidency minister , both accused Godoy of fomenting political unrest and linked him to a current mobilization of several hundred former contra rebels [ see below ] . |
| 7 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 8 | John Ferrar knew Little Gidding to be too notorious to be safe , and guided him to a private house nearby . |
| 9 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 10 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 11 | On that Tuesday morning my mother came with the doctor and took him to a spare bedroom , leaving the door ajar . |
| 12 | Ken bought him a train ticket , put some cash in his hand and took him to a nearby restaurant |
| 13 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 14 | Perhaps Eleanor was strong enough to force Gina out of his life and house , and help him to a new beginning . |