Example sentences of "of [v-ing] him to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 2 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 3 | Sharing Gladstone 's high churchmanship , he was well qualified for the difficult task of reconciling him to the policy of Welsh disestablishment . |
| 4 | He could have kicked himself , however , for imagining that although Eleanor had kept to her promise of inviting him to a meal , the ‘ little party ’ she had proposed would actually materialise . |
| 5 | Although she was nervous of putting him to the test , she knew that , sooner or later , she must . |