Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] him to his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 2 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But now , as in all good rehabilitated hellraiser stories , the only coke he touches comes from a bottle and he has a wife , Becky , who has helped him overcome the demon drink and restored him to his former hunky self . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When 13 , Mackenzie was sent to be educated at a hearing school where the teachers did not know what to do with him , and left him to his own devices a lot of the time . |