Example sentences of "[to-vb] him to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wants anybody to lead him to the so-called English plotters , it 's the very best possible way to go about it . |
| 2 | She was reluctant to lose him to the other side . |
| 3 | Peter had heard all this , sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea , and a sandwich made for him by Anna to sustain him to the far side of compline . |
| 4 | I have tried once or twice to get him to the big hills , or to the Dolomites , but he sees no reason to waste time that could be spent in Norway or Greenland . |
| 5 | I was obliged to assist him to the easy chair towards the window , so that he could sit upright , for his coughing was agonising at times . |
| 6 | Though Lugard later lost the simple faith of his childhood , he never lost the evangelical habit of spiritual self-scrutiny which had been so pronounced in him as a boy that his mother at one time feared that ‘ possibly ( though now in perfect health ) our Father may be about to remove him to the heavenly garner ’ . |
| 7 | Keynes 's adherence to the Liberal party in the 1920s is a matter of record , and historians of Liberalism have been eager to assimilate him to the great tradition . |
| 8 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 9 | This was not a principle calculated to endear him to the Inland Revenue or the men from Customs & Excise . |
| 10 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 11 | Alexander was too far gone in his cups to detect the sarcasm but he looked at Corbett , licked his lips greedily and , snatching up a brimming cup , lurched to his feet and gestured Corbett to follow him to the far end of the room . |
| 12 | He dismissed the service and told us to follow him to the back rooms for counselling . |
| 13 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 14 | In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig . |
| 15 | ‘ Too refined , ’ Julia explained didactically and pressed on to introduce him to the black and white humbug types labelled British Alpines , standing next to the skewbald variety called British Toggenbergs . |