Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [adv] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her smile slowly broadened , then , without warning , she launched herself at him , knocking him on to his back , her kisses overwhelming him . |
| 2 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
| 3 | Was there no thought of sending him back to his father ? ’ |
| 4 | She would imagine calling him up to her room every night before he went home to bed with a man , and taking her silver hairbrush from her desk and brushing his hair out like a daughter 's , one hundred strokes every night . |
| 5 | Henry sent envoy after envoy to Richard in the hope of calling him back to his side , but not even when he used an ambassador as distinguished as the Archbishop of Canterbury was his son to be persuaded . |
| 6 | She was packing his stuff and I was bringing him upstairs to his room like away from her like . |
| 7 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 8 | Frankie 's On brought him full circle in a way , taking him back to his music hall roots with its audience involvement . |
| 9 | Yesterday he told the court Kim threatened him with the knife after inviting him back to her flat . |
| 10 | She had deliberately kept out of his way until now , leaving the task of showing him upstairs to his godmother 's room to Mrs Diggory . |