Example sentences of "[to-vb] him to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 2 | You filthy stinking — ’ Several Repo Men took the opportunity to club him to his knees . |
| 3 | At last , with greasy fingers , she managed to guide him to her saturated hole , and he penetrated her as easily as her own fingers did when she masturbated . |
| 4 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 5 | At this moment of consummation ( and the image is surely sexual as well ) , and in the time of relief following , the poet gives up his struggle and allows the ‘ sacred river ’ to draw him to its ‘ lifeless ’ conclusion : to struggle for control in the river is to be controlled by it . |
| 6 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 7 | Highly theatrical in its use of gesture to suggest woman 's power over man to reduce him to his baser instincts , ( evidence of which is found in the entwined figures on the base ) it also refers to the dream-state . |
| 8 | In it , a wizard enchants two sisters , one after the other , to accompany him to his house in the depth of the forest . |
| 9 | Yet if he , just a man , could not find it in his heart to condemn his brother or the boy who had used his brother 's weaknesses to lure him to his death , how could this God of love of his childhood destroy so savagely and so arbitrarily ? |
| 10 | The Adjutant hastens out to see him to his car , which is waiting on the edge of the square . |
| 11 | What is even more remarkable of course , was the apparent failure of a coterie of close business associates and sophisticated public relations teams to alert him to his exposure . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry , ’ she cried desperately , risking electrocution to yank him to his feet . |
| 13 | In August 1717 Alberoni began trying to persuade Charles XII of Sweden and Czar peter the Great of Russia to sink their differences in return for a present of £100,000 from the Pretender , to pay for their armies to restore him to his throne . |
| 14 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 15 | For years Claudia had tried to reconcile him to his mother . |
| 16 | Supporters carried lighted torches to welcome him to his 15th and final rally in Taunton last night , giving some credence to his claim that ‘ beacons are being lit all across the West Country ’ . |
| 17 | Limeking went down as if shot , and his rider Pat Buckley desperately tried to get him to his feet as the horse , flanks heaving , lay in a mess of thorn and fir and mud . |
| 18 | Copper still would n't move but my vet said it was important to get him to his box away from the flies . |
| 19 | Bridhe lifted the baby , slipped a magic coral and rowan-berry necklace over his head and walked sun-wise round the bed three times for good fortune , before taking the child down to the hall to present him to his father , to Eachuinn Odhar and the clansmen assembled . |
| 20 | Melody managed to raise him to his feet once more , but after only another fifty paces , Seb veered from the path and stumbled clumsily across broken ground for some distance before collapsing into a depression in the ground that was half-hidden by undergrowth . |
| 21 | Melody tried to raise him to his feet yet again , but Seb pushed her off . |
| 22 | She wanted to take him to her cabin and tear all his smart clothes off . |
| 23 | It was rumoured that Pott would not allow the bearers to take him to his own hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , believing he would fare better elsewhere . |
| 24 | AUTOBUS ( Artificial Eye ) Overlooked Eric Rochant film about a ‘ sentimental terrorist ’ who kidnaps a school bus to take him to his girl , Charlotte Gainsbourg . |
| 25 | A simple tale of a teenager ( Yvan Attal , near left ) who hijacks a school bus to take him to his girl in another town , it is also a complex allegory of Love versus the Law . |
| 26 | AUTOBUS Post-New Wave whizz-kid Eric Rochant follows A World Without Pity with a trip to the French provinces , where a passionate youth quietly dying of smalltown boredom hijacks a school bus to take him to his girl , Charlotte Gainsbourg . |
| 27 | I decided to follow him to his bedroom to confront him with this unacceptable behaviour . |
| 28 | Naturally , I wanted to see him and to introduce him to my family ; but I also felt that he needed to get out of London from time to time , because he seemed to be assuming an increasing load of public work , as well as public lectures and broadcasts . |
| 29 | Pickerage said Frome was going to teach him to play squash , and then take him home to introduce him to his parents . |
| 30 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |