Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |
| 2 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 3 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 4 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
| 5 | Attempts were made to bring Erich Honecker , the former East German party and government leader , to trial on charges of giving the " shoot-to-kill " order to guards preventing illegal border-crossings , but the Soviet Union , where Honecker and his wife were , refused to hand him over to the German authorities [ see pp. 37828-29 ; 38110 ; for June sentencing of Harry Tisch see pp. 37967 ; 38298 ] . |
| 6 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 7 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |