Example sentences of "[vb pp] him to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 2 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 3 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 4 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 5 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 6 | The weight in his heart seemed to have tethered him to the pavement , and he had to force himself to turn away , and some seconds after she had disappeared through the doorway . |
| 7 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 8 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 9 | Anyone who became Nawab expected to be rich , and took it for granted that he should reward those who had helped him to the throne . |
| 10 | The constable might not have minded the instant promotion but I doubt if the commissioner would have been too happy had I relegated him to the ranks ! ) |
| 11 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |
| 12 | Here is the story of his life and of the succession of movies , remarkably similar in tone and most of them featuring actors like Robert de Niro and Harvey Keitel , which have raised him to the status of ( perhaps ) the world 's most famous film director . |
| 13 | I 've invited him to the rectory for dinner . |
| 14 | The farmer 's tied him to the fence to stop him butting the sheep and that 's deemed to be cruel . |
| 15 | For that evening , as work finished , the Zoo Curator himself had summoned him to the building near the Cages where they did a lot of the scientific and veterinary work on the birds . |
| 16 | But his choice of verse form has condemned him to the weakness which mars all attempts to match the Horatian strophe with the English quatrain — the weakness of expansion . |
| 17 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 18 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 19 | As for Joe , who blithely missed a fracture a yard across , she could have pinned him to the wall with a scalpel , she was so cross . |
| 20 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 21 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 22 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 23 | The slow sexual friction had brought him to the verge of orgasm . |
| 24 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 25 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 26 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 27 | What 's worse , it seems to have blinded him to the facts of Liverpool history . |
| 28 | But it had not really exposed him to the form of politics that he was about to encounter again in France — parliamentary politics . |
| 29 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 30 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |