Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] him [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 2 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 3 | I 'll have it out of him or turn him over to the press gang . |
| 4 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
| 5 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
| 6 | Two policemen forcibly took her arms from around her son , and led him out to the car to join his sister . |
| 7 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 8 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 9 | The final humiliation came when Branson and Draper flew out to Munich to see Oldfield perform in concert and bring him up to date on the current situation . |
| 10 | We call upon the BBC for a radical change of policy and demand programmes which build character instead of destroying it , which encourage and sustain faith in God and bring Him back to the heart of our family and national life . |
| 11 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 12 | You see we 'll keep good hold of him , and bring him back to you bound , if need be . |
| 13 | In 1686 the English envoy to the States General , Bevil Skelton [ q.v. ] , and some of James II 's army officers attempted to kidnap Peyton and bring him back to England , but failed , and the affair caused a diplomatic incident . |
| 14 | Could I say to the minister and bring him back to the real world about regeneration . |
| 15 | As well as capturing Irwin from Elland Road , they picked up defender Andy Linighan for £45,000 and sold him on to Norwich for £350,000 — and they got an extra £150,000 when he moved to Arsenal for £1 million . |
| 16 | Edward was glad to escape from Shelgate Road : his father seemed to undermine his self-confidence and made him out to be ‘ several kinds of fool ’ . |
| 17 | The Head gaped , and passed him on to Sylvester . |
| 18 | I took this bandage off and put a cold compress on , making a proper patella dressing , got the ambulance and got him off to hospital , and put in a Report about this broken gas-lid . |
| 19 | Well , I just told Ruth not to be a silly girl and got him off to Nurse . |
| 20 | Get hold of Topper and send him round to Rhoda Brocklebank . |
| 21 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 22 | As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle . |
| 23 | Charles was grumbling as Damian supported his weak body and helped him out to the car . |
| 24 | Cardiff reached out to grab Frye and shake him back to his senses . |
| 25 | His team-mates Andre Agassi , Pete Sampras and John McEnroe rushed on court and lifted him on to their shoulders to carry him to the sidelines . |
| 26 | However , when he grabbed Richard Baxter 's cloak it came away , and before he could do any more harm a couple of by-standers restrained him and hauled him off to the magistrates . |
| 27 | The manager chased Cowen , who is arthritic , and handed him over to police . |
| 28 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't want you collapsing on us — not good for the department 's reputation , ’ she joked lightly , and wheeled him round and handed him over to his wife . |
| 30 | They connected up the drip , set it running and turned him on to his side . |