Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a promise I expect him to equal . |
| 2 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 3 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 4 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 5 | First , I regressed him to former years and previous golfing tournaments when he had done exceedingly well , so that he was again able to savour the feeling of success and achievement . |
| 6 | On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute . |
| 7 | ‘ Could n't you move him to another job occasionally ? ’ she said , with a sudden burst of inspiration . |
| 8 | He rammed his stiffened baton in and out of her burrow , and all the time she urged him to greater efforts . |
| 9 | Why on earth should you link him to this ? ’ |
| 10 | GERTRUDE : Did you assay him to any pastime ? |
| 11 | Should we move him to another school ? |
| 12 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 13 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 14 | They took him to that private clinic , the one in the hills . |
| 15 | They sent him to proper schools — the first royal child not to have been educated by private tutors — but he was never just another pupil ; he was never allowed to forget the accident of birth that set him apart . |
| 16 | It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people . |
| 17 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 18 | It takes him to tenth place in the Ryder Cup table and the farming philanthropists will also get their reward . |
| 19 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 20 | He tied him to some trolleys ! |
| 21 | He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches . |
| 22 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 23 | Judge Anthony Hart described 28-year-old George Scott , who denied punching and kicking the male and female officers , as an ‘ arrogant thug ’ as he sentenced him to two years in prison . |