Example sentences of "[prep] him to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice lanced through the blackness , close to him and below him to the right . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , thank you , ’ she replied shortly , intending to slip past him to the treatment area to begin preparing for the first of the morning 's patients . |
| 3 | Chris ran past him to the hollow . |
| 4 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 5 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
| 6 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
| 7 | And there was nothing apocryphal about what her undutiful son was to say , half a century later , in his book Basilikon Doron , when he wrote of how his grandfather had been punished by God for his immorality , for his infant sons had predeceased him , and he died ‘ leaving a double curse behind him to the land , both a Woman of sex , and a new borne babe of age to reign over them ’ . |
| 8 | Luch , returning from taking Marion some soup , drifted aside out of his way , and pattered back behind him to the shieling to find out what was happening . |
| 9 | Smiling shakily back and in response to his urging , she sank with him to the floor . |
| 10 | He could see Kathleen in front of the treatment table , clutching a stitch-cutter like a lifeline , and as the man lunged at her he threw himself forward and grappled with him , falling with him to the floor . |
| 11 | ‘ If he remembered to take it out with him to the kitchen . |
| 12 | Which was worse — staying here for the night or going back with him to the hotel ? |
| 13 | If he called at her house in the morning on the pretext of enquiring after Mr Bradshaw and asked her straight out , in front of her mother , to walk with him to the theatre , she 'd have to accept . |
| 14 | Later , during tea , Lord Henry invited Basil and Dorian to go with him to the theatre that night . |
| 15 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 16 | If he found anything of interest , he said , he would bring photocopies with him to the cinema . |
| 17 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 18 | Swift took that secret with him to the grave . |
| 19 | In his 57 years at the College , he undoubtedly gained a great deal of clinical knowledge , which he unfortunately carried with him to the grave . |
| 20 | SPY Ian Spiro took the riddle of his family 's massacre with him to the grave yesterday . |
| 21 | She came with him to the door . |
| 22 | She came with him to the door , and the light from the hall cut an orange path across the roadway . |
| 23 | She came with him to the door , uneasy , perhaps scared . |
| 24 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
| 25 | She smiled as she went with him to the door . |
| 26 | Shrimpton came with him to the top of the stairs . |
| 27 | After he had finished attending to the roses , he went round them once again , cutting a bunch of long-stemmed buds to take with him to the clinic , along with Edna 's parcel of clean laundry . |
| 28 | So the gun went with him to the country every week , wrapped securely in sackcloth and tucked under the seat of his cart . |
| 29 | Jenkins was fortunate that he brought with him to the Home Office an intuitive understanding that it is how issues and incidents are handled , more than the policies which are decided upon , that can make or break a Home Secretary 's reputation . |
| 30 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |