Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hardly knew what she was saying ; only knew that she must somehow rouse him to movement . |
| 2 | However , Barbarossa was still suspicious of the leader of the Guelphs , and when he resolved to go on crusade he ordered that Henry must either follow him to the Holy Land or return to exile in England for a further three years . |
| 3 | On the drive back he considered whether the man were guilty of something more heinous than drinking champagne with a rich young woman on an afternoon when his constituents might reasonably expect him to be in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 5 | I 'd only send him to Wincanton if a new jockey comes into the equation , and needs to get to know him . ’ |
| 6 | You could hardly expect him to be ready to defend it , or give his life for it . |
| 7 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 8 | But I 'd also back him to the hilt in the face of larger difficulties . |
| 9 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 10 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 11 | She longed to get near him , and when he was quite drunk Simone would gently steer him to his room and help him get to bed . |
| 12 | ‘ One would naturally expect him to be well fed . ’ |
| 13 | Well dear you wo n't worry , I 'll shall soon tell him to ! |
| 14 | A few minutes before , he had tried to add ‘ We apologize for nothing ’ to the rules in his head , but he knew that Sara would always move him to compunction . |
| 15 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 16 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |
| 17 | Carried away by his own eloquence , he said blithely that his father would surely prefer him to be married . |
| 18 | And that , she thought in satisfaction , would surely bind him to her forever . |
| 19 | On a parish visit the pastor would sometimes take him to the bedside of a dying man or woman and Ramsey would sit long by the bed , saying almost nothing , but holding hands and at the end giving a blessing . |
| 20 | I would dearly wish him to be there and yet I would not impose on his convictions . ’ |
| 21 | You can advise them whether they decide your advice that 's fine , but what you must do is get them to s , you must write it on the plan your future document , the advice you gave , what plan you decided to do , and I would actually get him to initial it as well . |
| 22 | In the case of an only moderately cruel man , the intensification of the pain beyond a certain point will suddenly switch him to the equalization of viewpoints , and his pleasure will lapse . |
| 23 | His comments will certainly endear him to his hon. Friends . |
| 24 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |