Example sentences of "[verb] him to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 2 | Although he had recently been converted , it was Paisley 's conservative attack on unreliable unionist leaders which first drew him to Free Presbyterianism . |
| 3 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 4 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 5 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 6 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 7 | Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical . |
| 8 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 9 | He was a weak , cowardly man , she reflected , who wanted to be popular with everyone , yet whose deep insecurity drove him to self-righteous pomposity and chill cruelty . |
| 10 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 11 | A series of publications subjecting him to merciless ridicule appeared in 1691 — note the date . |
| 12 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 13 | Klein , who denied the reports linking him to Colombian drug dealers , was committed for trial on June 1 , 1990 , charged with illegally exporting Israeli military expertise . |
| 14 | . I 'm gon na take him to outer space to find another race , I 'm gon na take him to outer space . |
| 15 | . I 'm gon na take him to outer space to find another race , I 'm gon na take him to outer space . |
| 16 | And while Clough misses out again , it is understood that Blanc has a contract that will take him to French drama club Marseille in the summer . |
| 17 | If he is unable to breathe spontaneously it would be cruel to subject him to positive pressure ventilation to prolong his life artificially . |
| 18 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 19 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 20 | This initially led him to ceremonial magick and London 's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( 1898 ) , members of which included W. B. Yeats , Arthur Machen [ qq.v. ] , and its leader , S. L. Mathers ; and to yoga with the former Golden Dawn member Allan Bennett , later Bhikku Anada Metteya , who brought Theravada ( Hinayana ) Buddhism to Great Britain . |
| 21 | The marker has stayed back ever since and there have been plenty of reminders of his erstwhile self ; enough , one trusts , to restore him to selectorial favour come tour time . |
| 22 | His sister invariably had the power to restore him to good humour . |
| 23 | However , it will take several hundred pounds in vet bills to restore him to good health . |
| 24 | On the other hand , there is a fair chance that he might find a magic potion which will restore him to full strength and heal his wounds . |
| 25 | And no-one was more delighted than the man who brought him to Central Park — scout Eric Hawley . |
| 26 | The Evening News carried several of his wonder stories , and the appearance in September 1914 of his wartime fantasy ‘ The Bowmen ’ brought him to public attention . |
| 27 | More often , an executive 's contract entitles him to private use of his car . |
| 28 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 29 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 30 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |