Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She insisted that hospitalization was necessary and threatened to commit him to a private mental hospital unless the university hospital took him as an in-patient . |
| 2 | Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore . |
| 3 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 4 | In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry . |
| 5 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 6 | Then I had to take him to a big detached house divided into flats . |