Example sentences of "[verb] him to his [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 2 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 3 | Their secret organizations had long planned a revolution ; it took place on 18 September 1885 , when the Turkish governor-general was expelled , and a telegram sent to Prince Alexander welcomed him to his new realm . |
| 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 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 6 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 7 | It was in the course of his translation work that he received in 1790 the stimulus which led him to his radical rethink of medical treatment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When the roaring giant of a tube train came , the fag sucker suddenly withdrew his double-buckled shoes from the concrete and became a little scuttling pixie to compete with all the other scuttling pixies , but managed a further quick change to a hunched-up half-shut-marble-eyed frowny scowling monkey as he took his tense unrest out on the floor of the tube train that was carrying him to his necessary employment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His comments will certainly endear him to his hon. Friends . |
| 12 | He later admitted the loan stretched him to his financial limit . |
| 13 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 14 | Your spirits may be a little duller and your wits a little brighter to-morrow , ’ said Isambard tolerantly , and left him to his uneasy solitude . |
| 15 | He devoted much effort over many years to restoring him to his rightful place in the chemical hierarchy . |