Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This even brought a ghostly chuckle ; Dr Neil 's being the Master again was enough to bring McAllister back , she thought , if only to provoke him to further jokes . |
| 2 | A vomitoxin can be absorbed through the skin , causing a soldier to remove his mask to vomit and thus exposing him to other toxic agents , through his respiratory system . |
| 3 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 4 | YAHOO , a length and a half runner-up to Desert Orchid in last season 's Cheltenham Gold Cup , is being heavily backed to take his revenge in Boxing Day 's King George VI Chase at Kempton , and Coral 's yesterday cut him to 6-1 from 10-1 after laying him to lose £40,000 . |
| 5 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 6 | He did go back to London ; he did defy the might of Zanuck , but the canny Alex Korda in London stitched up the contract later which , yes , was to give him a million dollars , but also tie him to some terrible films . |
| 7 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 8 | Er , my Lord may I say that er in relation to the witness statement erm , clearly the credibility of this , the plaintiff Mr is going to be substantially in issue er and therefore er I propose er not to simply to tell him er and say erm in your witness statement your evidence erm but clearly to take him to those areas which are in dispute and to ask him to deal fully with them in I appreciate it 's going to erm take some time to do that but it is important in my submission that your Lordship has the ability to er assess the plaintiffs . |
| 9 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 10 | Long before we arrived , Herr Wendling had made a great reputation for him and has now introduced him to all his friends . |
| 11 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 12 | We 're all here to support him to some degree . |
| 13 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 14 | On 2 October 1991 Jordanian security forces arrested Muhammad al-Fasi , a Saudi Arabian businessman , and reportedly handed him to Saudi Arabian authorities at the al-Haditha crossing point on the Saudi/Jordanian frontier . |
| 15 | It was true she 'd avoided him , had gladly left him to Merry , but it had n't occurred to her that he might be aware of that . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Please do n't think you 're doing your horse a favour in cold weather by shutting his top door , because you 're actually subjecting him to all sorts of health hazards . |
| 18 | I 've personally had problems with one doctor cos he was out of date , he was n't you know , was n't aware of some of the treatments and I had to actually enlighten him to some of the the treatments that was available for people ! |