Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She shooed him back to bed in front of her and he went meekly enough , entering with studied indifference , tapping his fingertips together as he went . |
| 3 | His beautiful and adored mother quickly appeared from the sitting-room and hugged him nearly to death on the doorstep . |
| 4 | Instead , David pointed out landmarks they passed and eventually Julia led him on to talk about his childhood holidays at Fiesole . |
| 5 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 6 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 7 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 8 | He says did n't realise it was so serious and sent him back to class with an ice pack . |
| 9 | Clifford , 16 , who attends Clacton County High School , has brittle bones but his determination saw him through to victory in Saturday 's race , which was also open to the able-bodied . |
| 10 | Against all odds , he regained his health , and Mary pampered him back to fitness for David to win a National Championship on him . |