Example sentences of "[vb infin] he to his " in BNC.

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1 It will take courage to do this , but delivering an ultimatum may bring him to his senses .
2 When the Queen of the Wilis commands Giselle to rise and dance him to his death , so strong is. her love that she helps him to dance until cockcrow when he will survive .
3 She longed to get near him , and when he was quite drunk Simone would gently steer him to his room and help him get to bed .
4 The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains .
5 He drank it , she dandled him on her knee ; presently his eyes closed and he slept again , so that Mary could return him to his cradle .
6 However , when a one-time tenant called to say his possessions had been seized to pay his debts , Sheridan gave him the £300 which the man said would restore him to his former state .
7 He says if people think he 's not telling the truth they must tell him to his face .
8 I 'll tell him to his face I think his parent 's sofa 's not very nice .
9 We will leave him to his nurse . ’
10 So I 'll hold him to his word . ’
11 In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely .
12 If you 'll get out of the way , we 'll get him to his feet . ’
13 Flashman 's wife Helen , the company secretary , helped winch him to his feet before going into the meeting , flanked by club secretary Brian Ayres and a team of legal experts .
14 Mr Cheniere , the school 's headmaster , is a practising Catholic of Martinican origin , a freemason whose authoritarian methods do not endear him to his students .
15 This did not endear him to his colleagues : ‘ At that time , women were automatically shaved , given enemas , had their membranes ruptured and were given foetal monitoring .
16 His comments will certainly endear him to his hon. Friends .
17 Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland .
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