Example sentences of "[to-vb] him to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 2 | He 's only groggy , not out , but you 're able to secure him to the bed with the other set of handcuffs and the leather straps from the same drawer the hood came from . |
| 3 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 4 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 5 | By 1864 his interest in Christianity and his deference to family expectations were still strong enough to lead him to the choice of theology as one of his two subjects at Bonn ; but there is no doubt that belief was a thing of the past . |
| 6 | He suspected that Bishop Jon , who guessed , and Tuathal , who knew , had long discussed how to lead him to the state of proper sanctity in which a king should dwell . |
| 7 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
| 8 | Such information as the reconnaissance gleaned convinced Conrad that there was inadequate Russian strength to resist him to the north . |
| 9 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 10 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 11 | This is done by bringing the foot back to the starting position and then striking again equally quickly with the same foot , either to another area of the body or at the opponent 's legs , behind the upper heel , to sweep him to the ground . |
| 12 | For long moments she toyed with his anxious , quivering wand , dexterously using her warm wet tongue and soft lips to guide him to the brink of orgasm . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 14 | Wright has not played for England since the European Championship game against Holland 18 months ago but Robson has been sufficiently impressed by his League form to recall him to the squad . |
| 15 | For an unintelligible speaker to learn to speak intelligibly , it may not be the best training , and certainly it is not the only training , to send him to the pulpit of Boston parish church . |
| 16 | During 1941 Hillary persuaded the Air Ministry to send him to the United States on a speaking tour . |
| 17 | In November 1819 the poverty of Kitto 's family finally forced them to send him to the workhouse , where he was set to learn shoe making . |
| 18 | And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes , he would lose his temper and start breaking the furniture ; and his family decided to send him to the maison de santé at Gheel . |
| 20 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 21 | On those occasions when June was unable to accompany him to a meeting or activity , David would always ensure that she and Judith were alright and never failed to keep in touch . |
| 22 | After Charlie had finished dressing , he found Sal and Kitty waiting for him by the front door , but he refused to allow them to accompany him to the station , despite their tearful protest . |
| 23 | ‘ However , to start with he 's asking if you would care to accompany him to the theatre along with some friends from his regiment . |
| 24 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 25 | Later , changing into his dinner jacket in the executive cloakroom , Matthew wished he had thought to ask someone to accompany him to the chairman 's party . |
| 26 | He pulled a face and said less colloquially : ‘ I mean , he 'll be asking someone to accompany him to the police station . ’ |
| 27 | You have to expose him to the temptation , do n't you ? |
| 28 | She struggled to her feet to see him to the door . |
| 29 | Shelley stood up too , to see him to the door . |
| 30 | He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet . |