Example sentences of "[to-vb] him to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 2 | Half of her could n't wait to escape from him , to relegate him to a past memory , enjoyable at the time but without consequence — like Tivoli … a temporary pleasuring of the senses but insubstantial … åd the other half ? |
| 3 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 4 | She was reluctant to lose him to the other side . |
| 5 | Peter had heard all this , sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea , and a sandwich made for him by Anna to sustain him to the far side of compline . |
| 6 | Your son 's teacher should be able to refer him to an educational psychologist who 'll try to find out why he acts as he does , and how he can be helped . |
| 7 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 8 | I was obliged to assist him to the easy chair towards the window , so that he could sit upright , for his coughing was agonising at times . |
| 9 | Keynes 's adherence to the Liberal party in the 1920s is a matter of record , and historians of Liberalism have been eager to assimilate him to the great tradition . |
| 10 | This was not a principle calculated to endear him to the Inland Revenue or the men from Customs & Excise . |
| 11 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 12 | Mr. Newman also sought to invoke section 11(3) of the Act of 1989 , which confers upon the High Court jurisdiction to order a person 's discharge if , having regard to certain matters specified in the subsection , it would be unjust or oppressive to return him to a foreign state . |
| 13 | Alexander was too far gone in his cups to detect the sarcasm but he looked at Corbett , licked his lips greedily and , snatching up a brimming cup , lurched to his feet and gestured Corbett to follow him to the far end of the room . |
| 14 | Allen , in turn , took Coleridge to Balliol to introduce him to a young radical and poet called Robert Southey , who was then almost twenty years old . |
| 15 | In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig . |
| 16 | Coughlin says North 's only constructive contribution to Waite 's Lebanon mission had been to introduce him to an undercover agent working in Lebanon for British and American intelligence . |