Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle . |
| 2 | They bore him off to their favourite cafe . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's true enough , ’ said Meredith and , unable to apologise directly for his outburst at rehearsal , invited him instead to dinner that evening at the Commercial Hotel . |
| 4 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 5 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 6 | In the mid-Eighties the Jockey Club invited him down to London to deliver a gentle reminder . |
| 7 | A boss who was expecting a quiet birthday with his family at home was taken completely by surprise when his highly desirable secretary invited him back to her home for a drink after work . |
| 8 | Richardson , too , made a mediocre start being one over par for his first six holes , but then birdies at the seventh , ninth and 10th moved him on to the leaderboard . |
| 9 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday . |
| 10 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |
| 11 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 12 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 13 | Mercer drew him away to a comer , and slowly , haltingly , the general good humour resurfaced . |
| 14 | She drew him away to the corner by the iced water machine . |
| 15 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 16 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 17 | It was almost a treasonable thought , and Denis was relieved when Boxer , observing that the tractor was a ‘ queer-looking contraption ’ , drew him back to the present . |
| 18 | Lucy drew him down to her . |
| 19 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 20 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 21 | ‘ You helped him across to his chamber ? ’ |
| 22 | He heard a cry from a man at the bottom of the stairs who seemed to have had his face burned off , and he helped him out to safety . |
| 23 | Charles was grumbling as Damian supported his weak body and helped him out to the car . |
| 24 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 25 | He continued to suffer a great deal with poor health , which , he says , stirred him up to ‘ speak to sinners with some compassion as a dying man to dying men ’ . |
| 26 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 27 | Malcolm told him not to be so stupid . |
| 28 | North told him not to be downhearted , ‘ that the one bright spot is that the government is availing itself of part of the money for application to Central America . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I told him not to . |
| 30 | I told him not to be silly and then he stabbed me . |