Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] he to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 2 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 3 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 4 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
| 5 | They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away . |
| 6 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 7 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 8 | Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one . |
| 9 | The FSLN and Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , the influential presidency minister , both accused Godoy of fomenting political unrest and linked him to a current mobilization of several hundred former contra rebels [ see below ] . |
| 10 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 11 | John Ferrar knew Little Gidding to be too notorious to be safe , and guided him to a private house nearby . |
| 12 | It follows that it would not be possible to prejudice an unwelcome shareholder by engineering a proposed buy-out and committing him to an unwanted mandatory offer obligation . |
| 13 | The teller of tall tales poked Rex in the chest with his pistol and steered him to the far end of the room . |
| 14 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 15 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 16 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 17 | On that Tuesday morning my mother came with the doctor and took him to a spare bedroom , leaving the door ajar . |
| 18 | Ken bought him a train ticket , put some cash in his hand and took him to a nearby restaurant |
| 19 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 20 | Not with the shaft of a golf club driven through his neck and pinning him to the wooden floor . |
| 21 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 22 | Perhaps Eleanor was strong enough to force Gina out of his life and house , and help him to a new beginning . |