Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When he hesitated , she reached down and gently pulled him to his feet . |
| 3 | Going to the chair where he was already dropping off to sleep , she gently pulled him to his feet and began peeling the clothes from his back . |
| 4 | She began by destroying the contents of the studio , slashing all his canvases , painted or not , then tracking the felon himself , and mounting an assault that literally brought him to his knees , in fear for his balls . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even after a few minutes — even while the porter is still showing him to his room — Howard feels that he has understood a great deal about this city . |
| 9 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 10 | Pickerage said Frome was going to teach him to play squash , and then take him home to introduce him to his parents . |
| 11 | Had it also led him to his death ? |
| 12 | The Adjutant hastens out to see him to his car , which is waiting on the edge of the square . |
| 13 | Summoned before the Protector , Simpson boldly accused him to his face of treason , for taking the government upon himself . |
| 14 | At that moment he felt as if the chain he had taken from Mary Duncan now fettered him to his wife . |
| 15 | The first casualty of the match was , for a change , a West Indian fast bowler , when Marshall fractured his left thumb trying to stop a shot from Broad ; yet even this worked against England , for it simply inspired him to his best Test figures when he bowled in the second innings . |
| 16 | The cold eventually forced him to his feet . |
| 17 | ‘ I got the bike , Bill , ’ he shouted , and slapped Billy between the shoulder blades , almost knocking him to his knees . |
| 18 | She resisted the temptation to do as Paul suggested and instead made him pot after pot of black coffee and then drove him to his shop in Bridgetown . |
| 19 | He treated Richard Branson with imperious disdain ; twice inviting him to his home , and being pointedly out on both occasions ; then declining to share his torpedo-sized spliffs when a meeting was at last arranged . |
| 20 | Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy . |
| 21 | On private land , the State made the pomeshchik responsible for the collection of taxes from his serfs and then left him to his own devices . |
| 22 | After the first ministrations the Swedes discreetly left him to his agonies . |
| 23 | His comments will certainly endear him to his hon. Friends . |