Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] he to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of bringing him to justice . |
| 2 | ‘ I was n't thinking of bringing him to justice . |
| 3 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 4 | For some unaccountable reason the horses drawing the cart stopped just inches short of crushing him to death . |
| 5 | The officials who were entrusted with the task of putting him to death behaved with as much humanity as possible . |
| 6 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 7 | Apart from loving him to distraction it was one of the reasons she was still here . |
| 8 | Firemen lowered a paramedic down the quarry to treat Anthony before winching him to safety . |
| 9 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 10 | NEW US PGA champion Nick Price yesterday paid tribute to Nick Faldo for inspiring him to victory here at Bellerive . |
| 11 | Although the correspondence between the use of Creole and the description of the customer 's actions is not perfect , what the narrator seems to be doing is creating a persona for his character " the difficult customer " by linking him to Creole . |
| 12 | The test is variously described as " lowering the plaintiff in the estimation of right-thinking people generally " ; " injuring the plaintiff 's reputation by exposing him to hatred , contempt or ridicule " and " tending to make the plaintiff be shunned and avoided " . |