Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the man had arrived , Luke had offered him a glass of champagne and then shown him through to the kitchen and shut the door . |
| 2 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 3 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 4 | ‘ Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins . |
| 5 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 6 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 7 | His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor . |
| 8 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 9 | It would even be worth surrendering his prey , to have brought him down to the ignominy of lying to excuse himself . |
| 10 | Frankie Albright was nineteen and just young enough to have missed the war ; he had tried to sign up when he was sixteen , only to be informed upon by his mother , who had followed him down to the recruiting office . |
| 11 | His whole body felt bruised from the speed at which Doyle had dragged him round and thrown him on to the floor when they heard the shout outside . |
| 12 | Gradually the impulse which had taken him over to the wood , the instinct which had urged him to a resolution , worked its way to the surface . |
| 13 | It was the boy he had met when Georgiades had taken him back to the Place of the Dead ; Ali , Yussuf 's nephew . |
| 14 | Protocol and politeness had taken him out to the airport to meet the Temporary Duty men off the flight . |
| 15 | They 've taken him off to a dry house . |
| 16 | Not only had we beaten him on the ridge , but without cars we had unwittingly beaten him back to the hotel . |
| 17 | But Laura was a piranha ; she 'd have chewed him down to the bone if he had let her . |