Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb past] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
| 2 | Lam 's biography seems tailor-made for todays ' infatuation with multiculturalism : he was born in Cuba to a Chinese father and a Creole mother , he was a Roman Catholic fascinated by Santeria ( Cuban animism ) , his studies and work took him to France , Spain , the United States and the Caribbean , and each of his three wives came from a different European country . |
| 3 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 4 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |
| 5 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 6 | The sound of a horse and chaise brought him to his feet . |