Example sentences of "[v-ing] him to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he might not always meet her calling or her waiting , for men , too , were bidding him to the sound of axe and plough and sword . ’ |
| 2 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 3 | Hoc 's puny shoulders and bowed head reminded the furious Corsican suddenly of his own helplessness in the face of the unreasoning demands from Paris , and without warning he struck out at Hoc with his free hand , knocking him to the ground . |
| 4 | A terrier man drives his quad bike into a protestor , knocking him to the ground . |
| 5 | He claimed that Mr Maltby lunged at him so he punched him , knocking him to the ground . |
| 6 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 7 | Teversham and his sergeant closed round Morgan , shepherding him to the waiting Land Rover with meaningless gentle instructions to watch the step , up you go now . |
| 8 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 9 | The vagrant headbutted him , driving him to the ground . |
| 10 | The only exception to this rule was Uncle Jack , who clearly had his sights set on several more whiskies when Charlotte insisted , at Ursula 's request , on driving him to the station and seeing him aboard the London train . |
| 11 | The man showed his gratitude by recommending him to the Bishop for ordination . |
| 12 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 13 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 14 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 15 | The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital . |
| 16 | After dinner he might finish some pressing publishing work , correcting manuscripts or writing blurbs ; if not inveigled by Hayward into escorting him to a party , or sitting with guests in the shared " living room " , he would retire to his own rooms for study or contemplation . |
| 17 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
| 18 | When the stories reached Lysons himself , he wrote at once to the Duke of Portland , the home secretary , alerting him to the ‘ very suspicious business ’ taking place at Alfoxden , and on 11 August a government spy called James Walsh was dispatched to investigate . |
| 19 | The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital , with Pip tending him to the last . |
| 20 | Orders assigning him to the Simonova 's mission were make-work , a temporary solution at best . |
| 21 | She had dismissed him quite brutally , relegating him to the status of a passing fancy , or less . |
| 22 | ‘ Many would subscribe towards sinking him to the ocean bed . |
| 23 | When working with the patient who considers himself a consistent failure in a particular area of his life , part of that treatment may well involve regressing him to the time of one of these earlier successes . |
| 24 | ( Harry Chapman was no longer with the club , ill health forcing him to an early retirement . ) |
| 25 | ‘ He 's not my fancy man — it 's Tumbleweed , ’ I explained , leading him to a chair at the table . |
| 26 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 27 | ‘ No alcohol , ’ Damian said coolly , leading him to the terrace . |
| 28 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 29 | The Doctor ran for cover , grabbing the poet 's sleeve and pulling him to the side . |
| 30 | Then a blow hit his shoulder , felling him to the ground . |