Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] him [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His beautiful and adored mother quickly appeared from the sitting-room and hugged him nearly to death on the doorstep .
2 Well , I just told Ruth not to be a silly girl and got him off to Nurse .
3 I took this bandage off and put a cold compress on , making a proper patella dressing , got the ambulance and got him off to hospital , and put in a Report about this broken gas-lid .
4 At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late .
5 As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle .
6 Inquiry ‘ The doctor looked at the bottle and rushed him straight to hospital . ’
7 Jay grinned ear to ear , commiserated and ordered him back to bed .
8 I therefore took with us Ergay , one of our zabanias , selected a place to sleep under an overhanging rock and sent him back to camp to bring Birru in the evening with a mule , blankets and food .
9 He says did n't realise it was so serious and sent him back to class with an ice pack .
10 Lady Rous , of Rous Lench , Worcestershire , a godly woman and a supporter of Baxter , hearing of his illness , sent for him and nursed him back to health .
11 Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge .
12 And nursed him back to health and whatnot .
13 She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed .
14 Item that Richard Curteys of Battle … entered the liberty of this lordship and made an assult on Richard Knyght against the peace by night ; and with a strong hand , with force and arms , to wit , with swords , bows and arrows , they unjustly took him outside the aforesaid lordship and carried him off to Battle , within the liberty and town of the abbot of Battle , against the peace .
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