Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he to the " in BNC.

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1 Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not
2 Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move .
3 I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't .
4 His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ .
5 Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career .
6 To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight .
7 The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’
8 His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award .
9 Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) .
10 Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) .
11 Brain power and horse power is going to take him to the top of the sport .
12 Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so
13 Massingberd-Mundy , then chairman of the panel and a local steward since 1970 , claimed the stewards ' secretary , Major Peter Steveney , threatened to report him to the Jockey Club if he stuck to his personal view that both horses should be disqualified .
14 The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly .
15 Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police .
16 ‘ Sometimes , he would lose his temper and start breaking the furniture ; and his family decided to send him to the maison de santé at Gheel .
17 ‘ If he 's hurt I 'll have to get him to the vet , ’ said Lee .
18 Just the hint of a vengeful smile accompanied the massage that we could n't just walk off with that there dog — we 'd have to take him to the parcels office and sign for him .
19 The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality .
20 At half-ten the ambulance would arrive to bring him to the county home .
21 The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship .
22 But his mind was quick , and his memories were all intact ; and the longing never really went away , that awful persistent longing that could find outlet only in frustration and anger , and a wish to do bad things ; to hurt and to insult like he did now while he waited for David to concede defeat and agree to take him to the auction after all .
23 He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party .
24 ‘ However , to start with he 's asking if you would care to accompany him to the theatre along with some friends from his regiment .
25 Only last week she had told Henry ( who had lived in Maple Drive for twelve years ) that she wished to welcome him to the neighbourhood .
26 But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops .
27 So we are trying to introduce him to the larger world .
28 That , and trying to recruit him to the parents ' Association committee ( which was almost the same thing , as the most active women members were divorcees ) .
29 ‘ I intend to introduce him to the Führer at that meeting , General .
30 You have to expose him to the temptation , do n't you ?
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