Example sentences of "[vb pp] him to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 2 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 3 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 4 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 5 | He is too full of hate even to be afraid , he would have accused him to his face . ’ |
| 6 | Should have told him to his face . |
| 7 | John is happy because Mary has invited him to her party . |
| 8 | ‘ Because I had invited him to my house . |
| 9 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 10 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 11 | Only Anthea 's insistence had brought him to her room , where matters had taken their own turn . |
| 12 | She ought to have known that only matters of business would have brought him to her door . |
| 13 | If so , perhaps the explosion and the subsequent punishment have brought him to his senses , for an upsurge in his form was highlighted by a violent century against Leicestershire . |
| 14 | The first tug had awoken him from a complacent slumber , the second had brought him to his feet . |
| 15 | The dealer who had introduced him to his broker became understandably embittered . |
| 16 | The economists advising Beveridge had converted him to their own views , which Beveridge described as ‘ the socialisation of demand ’ . |
| 17 | Had it also led him to his death ? |
| 18 | She had unbuttoned him to his waist , and pulled his shirt and vest out of his trousers , before she spoke . |
| 19 | If they 'd glued him to my back he could n't have slept |
| 20 | The cold eventually forced him to his feet . |
| 21 | We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati . |
| 22 | His gallic flair has illuminated Old Trafford and the United supporters have taken him to their hearts — they have even invented ( in their usual witty and original way ) a song which goes ‘ Ooh Aah Cantona , Ooh Aah cantona ’ . |
| 23 | The policeman explained that Oliver had become ill , and the old gentleman had taken him to his house in the Pentonville district of north London . |
| 24 | ‘ I wish to hell I 'd never sent him to your school . ’ |
| 25 | At that moment he felt as if the chain he had taken from Mary Duncan now fettered him to his wife . |