Example sentences of "[verb] he to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 2 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 4 | Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie . |
| 5 | Although he had recently been converted , it was Paisley 's conservative attack on unreliable unionist leaders which first drew him to Free Presbyterianism . |
| 6 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 7 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 8 | I did n't introduce him to either of those things , his father Albert paints and my husband took it from him . |
| 9 | It 's a promise I expect him to equal . |
| 10 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 11 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 12 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 13 | That silent disapproval had to emanate from her and Thérèse in order to prove that they were young ladies , to provoke him to further displays of cruelty . |
| 14 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 15 | This even brought a ghostly chuckle ; Dr Neil 's being the Master again was enough to bring McAllister back , she thought , if only to provoke him to further jokes . |
| 16 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 17 | This reasoned and ridiculous plea had no effect at all on Jem , other than to inflame him to further violence . |
| 18 | He insists on a quick hug from his young son Jordi who accompanies him to some of the major events where Courier plays . |
| 19 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 20 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 21 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 22 | James 's increasing financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures . |
| 23 | When one master tires of a slave , it is a commonplace to sell him to another . ’ |
| 24 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 25 | Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical . |
| 26 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |
| 27 | ‘ Get out of the way , ’ snapped Rohmer , pushing him to one side as he moved towards Pearce . |
| 28 | Judge Paul Clark read social inquiry reports on Marron , before sentencing him to 2 life jail terms . |
| 29 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 30 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |