Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever killed Kemp had time : time to cart him off to the river , ant dump him there — gently , Lewis — without even a splash to startle the cygnets … ’ |
| 2 | THE business worked by magic — until Musgrave donned his only clean suit , the infallible sign that he was off on a call to Lord Glenconner or Sir Michael Culmne-Seymour , who used to bail him out to the tune of £50 or £100 . |
| 3 | She turned her head towards the servant who had just hurried to let him in to the audience-chamber , and put out an imperious hand to arrest his attention . |
| 4 | A year ago she 'd have been able to race him out to the ketch , maybe even climbed on deck and dived off … |
| 5 | Sinn Fein failed in an attempt to co-opt him on to the council on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 7 | The next day Creed asked Jed to drive him out to the Crumbles . |
| 8 | But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren . |
| 9 | I dashed out down the street to the pub to get him round to the cottage before Mr Vulcan changed his mind . |
| 10 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 11 | Then the officials decided to transfer him back to the Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 12 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 13 | Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol . |
| 14 | Faced by the Greek leaders come to manipulate him back to the war Achilles stalks off before they can reach him , pointedly speaking prose : ‘ Come , Patroclus , I 'll speak with nobody . |
| 15 | So I hunted him and smashed his face , and I was going to take him back to the prison-ship , so that he would n't have the pleasure of being free , when the soldiers caught us . |
| 16 | No-one 's got to go very far to take him down to the beach . |
| 17 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 18 | Afterwards I had to take him out to the pub to revive him . ’ |
| 19 | Then he allowed Viola to show him out to the landing . |
| 20 | He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house . |
| 21 | The FO noted that he had provided ‘ valuable assistance ’ to the allied cause as Prime Minister after Italy 's surrender in 1943 , and that it would be ‘ inopportune ’ to hand him over to the Ethiopians . |
| 22 | But they refused to hand him over to the US for trial and the coup crumbled when American troops stationed in Panama retaliated by ignoring their pleas for help against loyal troops . |
| 23 | " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth . |
| 24 | The Croatian Defence Minister , Martin Spegelj , was the sixth accused but Croatia had refused to hand him over to the JNA . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's right to hand him back to the government of the country to which he belongs in the expectation that he will be properly treated and if he has committed a war crime he would be tried accordingly , ’ Lord Aldington replied . |
| 26 | As soon as they saw a lonely person , they had to drag him off to the woods Jesus Christ ! |
| 27 | Doyle jerked at Tug 's arms to bring him round to the table . |
| 28 | The memory was only a couple of minutes old , but he felt that scrap of the past unravel to bring him back to the moment when she said , ‘ I 'd been out to meet someone . |
| 29 | " This is the course of lectures your daughter is taking , " she said trying to bring him back to the matter in hand . |