Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richardson , too , made a mediocre start being one over par for his first six holes , but then birdies at the seventh , ninth and 10th moved him on to the leaderboard . |
| 2 | She drew him away to the corner by the iced water machine . |
| 3 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 4 | It was almost a treasonable thought , and Denis was relieved when Boxer , observing that the tractor was a ‘ queer-looking contraption ’ , drew him back to the present . |
| 5 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 6 | Charles was grumbling as Damian supported his weak body and helped him out to the car . |
| 7 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 8 | The shapechanger dropped him on to the ground . |
| 9 | Sara drove him scornfully to the hospital three times a week , for he was n't supposed to drive . |
| 10 | Ellwood spun him a dozen more times , then released him on to the sofa . |
| 11 | The fear followed him on to the table at the Rothmans and the man who had pillaged nine titles last season lost to world No 52 Tony Chappel — a player who had managed to take just one frame off him in two previous meetings . |
| 12 | Kate followed him on to the landing and shouted : ‘ You 're another one . |
| 13 | She followed him on to the train for the short journey to Bruges . |
| 14 | When the best man cleared his throat and announced that he was going to fix the puncture he had before leaving , all Moran 's children followed him out to the road and stood around as he got levers and patches and solution . |
| 15 | But he followed him quietly to the table and was soon deeply involved in his new study . |
| 16 | The retirement lasted two year , until McLaren tempted him back to the sport in 1982 and his old skills were soon apparent at Brands Hatch and Watkins Glen , where he returned to winning ways . |
| 17 | He flailed wildly in her grip and she pulled him bodily to the rail by a handful of flesh . |
| 18 | A sudden crash of cymbals pulled him back to the present . |
| 19 | Bruce was still lost in the red mists of temper seven minutes later when Simpson , City 's impressive recruit from Swindon , released White with a splendid pass — and Bruce tracked him almost to the deadball line before scything him down . |
| 20 | I called him through to the kitchen to have his soup . |
| 21 | A shout from the front of the wood called him back to the edge of the field , where men were watching a group of the enemy busy with spades on the high ground to his left , near the wood where they stationed the Normans . |
| 22 | She waved him in to the sitting-room , and Piers looked up as they entered , his eyes expressionless as he took in the identity of the visitor . |
| 23 | She guided him back to the lift , down to the ground floor and the street and into a taxi . |
| 24 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 25 | Kolchinsky lowered him carefully to the floor then flicked on the intercom switch on the desk . |
| 26 | With a considerable effort the men got him on to the stretcher , and Redpath noticed that his trouser pockets seemed to be bulging rather curiously . |
| 27 | We brought him here ou , he changed his clothes from his own suit into the pied piper and erm then we got him back to the Prince of Wales Theatre . |
| 28 | McGee piloted him upstairs to the drawing room , leaving Julia to cope with the next bell which came immediately . |
| 29 | It led him also to the study of existentialism , a popular discourse among fifties youth , made popular by the interest of James Dean , and whose definition seems to sum up what Nicholson has become : ‘ a free agent answerable to no one in a deterministic and seemingly meaningless universe ’ . |
| 30 | He took Ranulf 's hand , led him over to the gibbet and pushed his hand between the iron bars until the tips of his fingers touched the decaying flesh of the hanged man , just above where his heart had been . |