Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] him to " in BNC.

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1 Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call .
2 In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig .
3 Alexander was too far gone in his cups to detect the sarcasm but he looked at Corbett , licked his lips greedily and , snatching up a brimming cup , lurched to his feet and gestured Corbett to follow him to the far end of the room .
4 Allen , in turn , took Coleridge to Balliol to introduce him to a young radical and poet called Robert Southey , who was then almost twenty years old .
5 Peter had heard all this , sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea , and a sandwich made for him by Anna to sustain him to the far side of compline .
6 Unable to carry the rest of the council with him , Joe Esseff would later resign the chairmanship of the CLAO in disgust , but meanwhile , on 3 March , he took Coleman to Paris to introduce him to Aoun 's senior advisers .
7 He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet .
8 I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor .
9 His job was to convince Amaldi to pack his bags because there was a ship waiting at Naples to take him to the United States .
10 Presentation Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the Temple to present him to God as required by Jewish law ( Exodus 13:1–16 ) .
11 A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter .
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