Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's true enough , ’ said Meredith and , unable to apologise directly for his outburst at rehearsal , invited him instead to dinner that evening at the Commercial Hotel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 5 | He heard a cry from a man at the bottom of the stairs who seemed to have had his face burned off , and he helped him out to safety . |
| 6 | Well I told him , I told him not to feed but they 're fucking |
| 7 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 8 | She shooed him back to bed in front of her and he went meekly enough , entering with studied indifference , tapping his fingertips together as he went . |
| 9 | Inquiry ‘ The doctor looked at the bottle and rushed him straight to hospital . ’ |
| 10 | Jay grinned ear to ear , commiserated and ordered him back to bed . |
| 11 | Mum went over to him and delivered a hard slap then ordered him off to bed . |
| 12 | On their way to the magistrates they were stopped by Richard Baxter 's doctor who immediately ordered him home to bed . |
| 13 | Well , I just told Ruth not to be a silly girl and got him off to Nurse . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His beautiful and adored mother quickly appeared from the sitting-room and hugged him nearly to death on the doorstep . |
| 16 | Instead , David pointed out landmarks they passed and eventually Julia led him on to talk about his childhood holidays at Fiesole . |
| 17 | She led him back to school kindly . |
| 18 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 19 | She brought him up to date with what had happened . |
| 20 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 21 | That brought him back to life . |
| 22 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 23 | A sharp knock at the door brought him back to earth . |
| 24 | But what else he could paint , other than trash for the tourists , brought him back to earth . |
| 25 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 26 | His leadership is respected by all the rugby nations of the world , but a happy bunch of youngsters from Witham School brought him down to earth as they piled in yesterday at Twickenham . |
| 27 | In a way , she brought him down to earth . |
| 28 | The fifth took him straight to hospital . |
| 29 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 30 | The person who was most patient with him was Alison , who let him read his poems to her and sometimes took him out to lunch . |