Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limeking went down as if shot , and his rider Pat Buckley desperately tried to get him to his feet as the horse , flanks heaving , lay in a mess of thorn and fir and mud . |
| 2 | Melody tried to raise him to his feet yet again , but Seb pushed her off . |
| 3 | Pronouncing the word seemed to bring him to his senses . |
| 4 | I decided to follow him to his bedroom to confront him with this unacceptable behaviour . |
| 5 | Melody managed to raise him to his feet once more , but after only another fifty paces , Seb veered from the path and stumbled clumsily across broken ground for some distance before collapsing into a depression in the ground that was half-hidden by undergrowth . |
| 6 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 7 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 8 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 9 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 10 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 11 | The dealer who had introduced him to his broker became understandably embittered . |
| 12 | The first tug had awoken him from a complacent slumber , the second had brought him to his feet . |
| 13 | She had unbuttoned him to his waist , and pulled his shirt and vest out of his trousers , before she spoke . |
| 14 | The policeman explained that Oliver had become ill , and the old gentleman had taken him to his house in the Pentonville district of north London . |