Example sentences of "[vb past] him to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She never invited him to the jolly ones .
2 Simultaneously the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] drew him to the Catholic Church , into which he was received in 1846 .
3 A family connection with the lord chancellor , John , Baron Somers [ q.v. ] , drew him to the Whig side in politics , but he was no slavish follower of a party .
4 Maisie snorted and , following the sound of his voice , traced him to the wooden bench .
5 His sudden smile transformed him to an astonishing degree , revealing the man behind the remote consultant .
6 In the early hours of Thursday morning , the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’
10 I compared him to the other gentlemen present .
11 The challenge drove him to a healthy distraction , and he was still occupied with it at three thirty in the morning , when the telephone rang .
12 They insisted that Derek enter their car and drove him to a quiet layby a short distance away .
13 He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement .
14 This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances .
15 HEROL Graham 's reign as British middleweight champion ended last night as Bradford 's Frank Grant blasted him to a ninth-round defeat at Elland Road , Leeds .
16 Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent .
17 Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey .
18 Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot .
19 It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world .
20 Creed directed him to a narrow sidestreet .
21 The Liberal set-back in 1895 cost him his seat , and his chronic hay fever directed him to an urban constituency .
22 The opening door recalled him to the present situation .
23 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 ] .
24 We rushed him to the veterinary hospital , where he was given an antidote which should have worked within 20 minutes .
25 When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days .
26 Murchison recognized the boy 's ability , arranged for his entry to the Royal School of Mines , where he studied under Thomas Huxley and ( Sir ) Andrew Ramsay [ qq.v. ] , and in 1862 recruited him to the Geological Survey of Scotland .
27 She hustled him to the far side of the street .
28 Korda signed him to a seven-year contract , after the very encouraging reviews of Dolwyn and he was put to work .
29 Some criticised his method of combating Bodyline by stepping away to cut the ball to the off , but Bradman claimed that this exposed him to a greater risk of injury than the orthodox type of batting .
30 Unsurprisingly , Socks was fine until his owner 's presidential victory exposed him to the unwelcome attention of the world 's media and turned his little world upside down .
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