Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] him [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 2 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 3 | At one time , he even dominated Mot , the surly god of death , and banished him to exile in the desert . |
| 4 | Benjamin thanked the groom and told him to return to the chateau . |
| 5 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 6 | On the third evening of the first week he sent one of his assistants into the dining hall and told him to get on the mike and chat to the campers/diners . |
| 7 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 8 | They got the harness off him , and turned him to bleed into the grass rather than into his own throat . |
| 9 | Harry 's employer , Major Spofforth , was himself a golfer ; he recognized that the young man had skill , and encouraged him to persevere with the game . |
| 10 | He was approached from behind by a man who shoved a sharp object into his back and ordered him to return to the bar in Beaumont Street . |
| 11 | Iron Josh had certainly given them no trouble when they had driven into his yard at the back of Old George 's Street and ordered him to climb into the cart . |
| 12 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 13 | In the empty streets we finally flagged down a taxi , prostrated ourselves before him and persuaded him to drive to the hitherto uncharted climes of Muswell Hill . |
| 14 | At the end of each day , as he had done since the beginning of the autumn , Robert took him home , where Mr and Mrs Wilson petted him , fed him , and put him to sleep in the spare bedroom as if he were their own son . |
| 15 | Finaly the heat from the fire began to burn Yanto 's left side and forced him to roll off the still inert Molly . |
| 16 | Clement 's final assistance to Edward came in 1306 when , resisting the king 's call to deprive or translate Winchelsey , he suspended the primate and summoned him to exile in the Curia . |
| 17 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
| 18 | Now this short note cruelly dashed his hopes : the mysterious writer apologised for not meeting him but asked him to wait amongst the ancient ruins to the north-west of the Tower . |