Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] him to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josh had to be squeezed into Clare 's tight weekday schedule : after taking him to the babysitter in Pimlico , she caught another bus to the shoe shop where she worked . |
| 2 | VERA Daniels , 66 , was reunited yesterday with long-lost brother John Stokes , 63 — last seen in 1942 — after tracing him to a village TEN MILES from her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffs . |
| 3 | ‘ Many would subscribe towards sinking him to the ocean bed . |
| 4 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 5 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 6 | Sharing Gladstone 's high churchmanship , he was well qualified for the difficult task of reconciling him to the policy of Welsh disestablishment . |
| 7 | He could have kicked himself , however , for imagining that although Eleanor had kept to her promise of inviting him to a meal , the ‘ little party ’ she had proposed would actually materialise . |
| 8 | Although she was nervous of putting him to the test , she knew that , sooner or later , she must . |
| 9 | After dinner he might finish some pressing publishing work , correcting manuscripts or writing blurbs ; if not inveigled by Hayward into escorting him to a party , or sitting with guests in the shared " living room " , he would retire to his own rooms for study or contemplation . |
| 10 | The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't see any sense in subjecting him to a hard race in the Gold Cup when I know that his blood has been wrong , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | She glared at him , waiting until he had stopped the car outside her house before treating him to a cold smile . |
| 13 | First , the bishop had been enthusiastic in inviting him to the new work and had been wide open to the initiative . |
| 14 | Let me breathe then , ’ she laughed , giving him a big hug before putting him to the floor . |
| 15 | And at his back are China 's octogenarian power-brokers , biding their time before throwing him to the wolves . |
| 16 | Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife . |
| 17 | It was not such a great step in reducing him to the laws-giver . |
| 18 | The only exception to this rule was Uncle Jack , who clearly had his sights set on several more whiskies when Charlotte insisted , at Ursula 's request , on driving him to the station and seeing him aboard the London train . |
| 19 | The good thing about having the machines on the vehicle are that we can give him that electric shock as opposed to taking him to the hospital to have that electric shock . |
| 20 | I felt like apologising to Redpath for putting him to a lot of trouble for scant reason . |
| 21 | Lovell gave Coleridge food that night , but not shelter , and in the days that followed was responsible with Southey for introducing him to a city strong in religious dissent and political radicalism . |
| 22 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 23 | The man showed his gratitude by recommending him to the Bishop for ordination . |
| 24 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 25 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 26 | If he remained at liberty , he could authorise the calling in of outside help — hence , as insurance , the coup leader 's attempt to destroy the President s reputation by connecting him to the cocaine trade . |
| 27 | For all but the very ill or those admitted as an emergency the nurse can help the patient with his problem of being among unfamiliar people by introducing him to the other patients in his immediate vicinity . |
| 28 | In the past , freemasons have labelled and slandered the Christian God by reducing him to a miniature deity . |