Example sentences of "[prep] him to the " in BNC.
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1 | Berthe Weill shrugged and crossed the street after him to the catcalls of the crowd . |
2 | The voice lanced through the blackness , close to him and below him to the right . |
3 | I had the impression of a cautious , reflective man , who would take his work seriously and perform what was required of him to the best of his ability . |
4 | The man ( if it was a man ) was probably a fairly junior member of the firm ; if only Henry could find a way of getting past him to the people really in the driving seat . |
5 | She hurried past him to the stairs . |
6 | ‘ What the hell are you talking about ? ’ snapped Cardiff in return , and pushed past him to the double-doors . |
7 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
8 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
9 | Chris ran past him to the hollow . |
10 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
11 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
12 | ‘ Yes , thank you , ’ she replied shortly , intending to slip past him to the treatment area to begin preparing for the first of the morning 's patients . |
13 | And there are scenes of great moral effectiveness , as when Ransom , plucking up his courage far the struggle with Weston , recalls that ‘ at that moment , far away on earth … men were at war , and white-faced subalterns and freckled corporals who had but lately begun to shave , stood in horrible gaps or crawled forward in deadly darkness , awakening like him to the preposterous truth that all really depended on their actions . ’ |
14 | And there was nothing apocryphal about what her undutiful son was to say , half a century later , in his book Basilikon Doron , when he wrote of how his grandfather had been punished by God for his immorality , for his infant sons had predeceased him , and he died ‘ leaving a double curse behind him to the land , both a Woman of sex , and a new borne babe of age to reign over them ’ . |
15 | Luch , returning from taking Marion some soup , drifted aside out of his way , and pattered back behind him to the shieling to find out what was happening . |
16 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
17 | I went with him to the glass door and stopped . |
18 | She should come with him to the United Reform Church in Florence and hear messages not of vengeance but of forgiveness . |
19 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
20 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
21 | If we would come with him to the great hall , he would listen to all sides of the argument and then draw his conclusions . |
22 | Vic takes the Daily Mail with him to the lavatory , the one at the back of the house , next to the tradesmen 's entrance , with a plain white suite , intended for the use of charladies , gardeners and workmen . |
23 | A man I 'd met only twice , a bit of a loner , invited me to go with him to the West Indies . |
24 | So Rodrigo departed from the King , and took his spouse with him to the house of his mother , and gave her to his mother 's keeping . |
25 | He found her , with the giants , and urged her to return with him to the depths . |
26 | Swift took that secret with him to the grave . |
27 | They had climbed all over him in Tatton Park , looked at Granada TV studio sets with him , been with him to the Industrial and Air Museums . |
28 | In his 57 years at the College , he undoubtedly gained a great deal of clinical knowledge , which he unfortunately carried with him to the grave . |
29 | She walked out with him to the car and said : ‘ I was sorry about your aunt — sorry for you , I mean . |
30 | Dalgliesh walked out with him to the car . |