Example sentences of "[prep] him to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold acceded at once and I trotted dutifully after him to a small anteroom adjoining the Cabinet room . |
| 2 | Berthe Weill shrugged and crossed the street after him to the catcalls of the crowd . |
| 3 | The voice lanced through the blackness , close to him and below him to the right . |
| 4 | Until near the middle of the sixteenth century the enrolment of a student who had completed , or nearly completed , his studies as a candidate for office and the subsequent appointment of him to a post seems to have been rather a disorganized process . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She hurried past him to the stairs . |
| 8 | ‘ What the hell are you talking about ? ’ snapped Cardiff in return , and pushed past him to the double-doors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 11 | Chris ran past him to the hollow . |
| 12 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
| 13 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | He turned behind him to a metal trolley where neat regiments of jars and bottles waited breathlessly under sealing plastic . |
| 17 | Her father had turned against Bunyan , and when he heard that she had ridden behind him to a meeting , he locked her out of the house for two days . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 21 | He pulled her with him to a more secure place , but there was n't a chance of speaking even if she 'd had breath or invention . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , he then insisted that I went with him to a trade show in San Francisco . |
| 23 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 24 | He took the girls to the swimming pool after midnight , and then persuaded the victim to come with him to a changing room , on the pretext that the manager of the swimming pool might find them at the pool . |
| 25 | ‘ Capitalist swine , ’ she murmured , and sank back into a sleep in which she tossed and stretched and he was sure muttered someone else 's name , but in the morning went with him to a garage and they actually bought a car , albeit second hand , and she let herself be dragged into a travel agency and they booked a holiday to Spain just like anyone else . |
| 26 | He was breaking her on his wheel of fire , forcing her with him to a high-point of surrender , then casting her away as if her touch were a contamination . |
| 27 | If you kiss another man publicly , or go out with him to a nightclub like 1997 , you 'll humiliate me in front of the whole damned colony ! ’ |
| 28 | They walked with him to an old wooden building near the farmhouse . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I went with him to the glass door and stopped . |