Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's true enough , ’ said Meredith and , unable to apologise directly for his outburst at rehearsal , invited him instead to dinner that evening at the Commercial Hotel . |
| 3 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 4 | Sin therefore reduces God to man 's image , scales him down to man 's size and substitutes man 's view of God for God himself . |
| 5 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 6 | He heard a cry from a man at the bottom of the stairs who seemed to have had his face burned off , and he helped him out to safety . |
| 7 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
| 8 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 9 | To Tolkien , with his theory of dragonish ‘ bewilderment ’ , it meant more likely ‘ stayed with its possessor ’ , driving him insidiously to greed and cunning . |
| 10 | Well I told him , I told him not to feed but they 're fucking |
| 11 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 12 | She shooed him back to bed in front of her and he went meekly enough , entering with studied indifference , tapping his fingertips together as he went . |
| 13 | Deardrie , how do I bring him back to reality ? |
| 14 | Put him out to work : that would school him . |
| 15 | why ca n't you send him down to court ? |
| 16 | So the way he 's , is n't it the way he 's dressed for that is fine , but you ca n't send him down to court like that . |
| 17 | The boy would speak ‘ say the Chorus from Henry V and I would go further and further away from him , forcing him not to shout but to make certain I could hear him . |
| 18 | Soldiers fired on Aristide 's home in the poor suburb of Plains de Cul-de-Sac , where he continued to live , killing his security chief before leading him away to army headquarters . |
| 19 | She had had him in to hospital . |
| 20 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 21 | Inquiry ‘ The doctor looked at the bottle and rushed him straight to hospital . ’ |
| 22 | Jay grinned ear to ear , commiserated and ordered him back to bed . |
| 23 | Mum went over to him and delivered a hard slap then ordered him off to bed . |
| 24 | On their way to the magistrates they were stopped by Richard Baxter 's doctor who immediately ordered him home to bed . |
| 25 | Please could you have this checked by a Doctor and treat him with the appropriate shampoo before sending him back to school . |
| 26 | refer him refer him back to Office Services . |
| 27 | The bride , who fell in love with the former lecturer , as she helped nurse him back to health after his four-year ordeal as a captive , was radiant in a full-length , ivory raw silk dress , with a slit up the side . |
| 28 | BABY Bogdan Ursu is out of hospital and living with foster parents who will nurse him back to health . |
| 29 | When Mother — the marvellous Avis Bunnage , resisting all temptation to caricature — calls him down to breakfast , Crawford descends from the flies in a parachute . |
| 30 | He has promised to contact Ron direct to keep him up to date . |