Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] he [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
| 2 | She would send him off to some lecturing engagement with butter and other rations to give his hostess , and when he came back the rations would be found as a soggy mess in his pocket . |
| 3 | He was too slow , or too fast ; so that sweeping — and most of his day he spent sweeping , brushing the floors , the shavings from the machines — he was either busy or , conversely , slack to stand on his brush , an affront to Parker who would move him on to some other task . |
| 4 | He suffered from hypothermia and the pain in his hands was such it would take him up to six minutes ‘ just to have a pee ’ . |
| 5 | Nothing would drag him back to that grind . |
| 6 | And I think we ought to get him over to one of our meetings . |
| 7 | The loving parent who tries to shield the child from harm to such an extent that he becomes timid and anxious can cause as many problems as the thoughtless and impatient adult who thinks that telling the child he is stupid will spur him on to greater efforts . |
| 8 | Providing his French colleagues agree , which is akin to the BBC agreeing to retain Dan Maskell , he will stand for another four year term as President of the French Federation , which will take him through to early 1997 . |
| 9 | Dreaming of ensnaring a visitor who will whisk him off to fabulous Detroit , Sonny is completely unaware that ‘ people do n't go there . |