Example sentences of "[vb pp] him to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 2 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | I bred him and love the horse , and I 'm delighted to have sold him to an owner who will look after his interests . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 12 | Love will have raised him to a place far above human strife . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had also telephoned an old friend , who had invited him to a birthday party the following weekend , which he was looking forward to , although with some apprehension . |
| 15 | I 've invited him to the rectory for dinner . |
| 16 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 17 | The farmer 's tied him to the fence to stop him butting the sheep and that 's deemed to be cruel . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 21 | And yet , tonight , some demon that she did n't understand had driven him to an act she was sure he was now bitterly regretting . |
| 22 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 23 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He puts the case for Xanthippe ( aka Mrs Socrates ) , whose husband 's ‘ homosexual leanings , his absent-minded behaviour , his idleness and his love of proving everyone wrong would have endeared him to no wife of mettle . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The slow sexual friction had brought him to the verge of orgasm . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But it had not really exposed him to the form of politics that he was about to encounter again in France — parliamentary politics . |