Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 2 | ‘ One would naturally expect him to be well fed . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd only send him to Wincanton if a new jockey comes into the equation , and needs to get to know him . ’ |
| 4 | She longed to get near him , and when he was quite drunk Simone would gently steer him to his room and help him get to bed . |
| 5 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 6 | In the case of an only moderately cruel man , the intensification of the pain beyond a certain point will suddenly switch him to the equalization of viewpoints , and his pleasure will lapse . |
| 7 | She hardly knew what she was saying ; only knew that she must somehow rouse him to movement . |
| 8 | Well dear you wo n't worry , I 'll shall soon tell him to ! |
| 9 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 10 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 11 | In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal . |
| 12 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 13 | These influences will not always incline him to the view that revelation of particular legal or political material is necessarily in the public interest . |
| 14 | You could hardly expect him to be ready to defend it , or give his life for it . |
| 15 | A few minutes before , he had tried to add ‘ We apologize for nothing ’ to the rules in his head , but he knew that Sara would always move him to compunction . |
| 16 | He took the bus , because his parents would n't always drive him to auditions , from Malibu to Santa Monica , 25 miles each way , at the age of thirteen , ‘ and the casting directors would literally take a Polaroid and say thank you very much and you got back on the bus . ’ |
| 17 | ROBBIE Did I ever ask him to ? |
| 18 | On the drive back he considered whether the man were guilty of something more heinous than drinking champagne with a rich young woman on an afternoon when his constituents might reasonably expect him to be in the House of Commons . |
| 19 | But I 'd also back him to the hilt in the face of larger difficulties . |
| 20 | you could n't really take him to a tribunal could you , 'cos ya |
| 21 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 22 | I did n't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself , physically , on the outside . |
| 23 | Carried away by his own eloquence , he said blithely that his father would surely prefer him to be married . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |
| 26 | And that , she thought in satisfaction , would surely bind him to her forever . |
| 27 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 28 | On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing . |
| 29 | Uxbridge had eloped with the wife of the Duke 's younger brother , which did not precisely endear him to the Duke . |
| 30 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |