Example sentences of "[v-ing] him to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teversham and his sergeant closed round Morgan , shepherding him to the waiting Land Rover with meaningless gentle instructions to watch the step , up you go now . |
| 2 | The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital , with Pip tending him to the last . |
| 3 | ( Harry Chapman was no longer with the club , ill health forcing him to an early retirement . ) |
| 4 | Physically , he was n't her type at all , she thought , subjecting him to a critical mental review . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | There was n't much he could do about Preston except shout abuse across the garden fence at his nan while she was putting the washing out , but he managed to persuade her it would be a mistake sending him to a Catholic school . |
| 7 | His parents were not affluent but they pumped what money they had into his education , sending him to a private school , Edinburgh 's Merchiston . |
| 8 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 9 | Javed Miandad receiving from Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif documents entitling him to a 660 sq . |
| 10 | She glared at him , waiting until he had stopped the car outside her house before treating him to a cold smile . |
| 11 | Lovat was used to cringing servility , and he could n't remember when anyone had last disagreed with him , never mind treating him to a scalding tirade of abuse . |
| 12 | It follows that it would not be possible to prejudice an unwelcome shareholder by engineering a proposed buy-out and committing him to an unwanted mandatory offer obligation . |
| 13 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 14 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 15 | I was ruining his chances of getting free from the chains of misery attaching him to a rotten banlieue de Paris . |
| 16 | He became angry and frustrated , having struggled so hard to rise above his humble background to become a physician , and the marriage he had seen as his link to success was more like a chain binding him to the spoilt daughter of the man whose position he envied . |
| 17 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 18 | First , the bishop had been enthusiastic in inviting him to the new work and had been wide open to the initiative . |
| 19 | ‘ This is Will , ’ said Zach , introducing him to the two girls . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Not with the shaft of a golf club driven through his neck and pinning him to the wooden floor . |
| 22 | Pinza ran only once more , Gordon Richards partnering him to an easy victory in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot ; Aureole was again second . |
| 23 | Maggie was still not in any condition to argue and she found herself following him to the dark little bar , almost running a gauntlet of greetings from the men standing around . |
| 24 | In the past , freemasons have labelled and slandered the Christian God by reducing him to a miniature deity . |