Example sentences of "he [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , no doubt confused beyond belief , gratefully passed him on to the Americans |
| 2 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 3 | She can nae take him in to the dentists till she gets rid of them . |
| 4 | He even took him down to the cellars to see the lights and the point for a plug there . |
| 5 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |
| 6 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 7 | " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth . |
| 8 | The FO noted that he had provided ‘ valuable assistance ’ to the allied cause as Prime Minister after Italy 's surrender in 1943 , and that it would be ‘ inopportune ’ to hand him over to the Ethiopians . |
| 9 | They caught a suspicious individual one evening , and turned him over to the police ; but he turned out to be a frightened bilberry-picker who had lost his way . |
| 10 | Some of the near contemporary songs which have survived from the period describe Rodrigo himself as capturing Garcia and handing him over to the brothers . |
| 11 | However , when he grabbed Richard Baxter 's cloak it came away , and before he could do any more harm a couple of by-standers restrained him and hauled him off to the magistrates . |
| 12 | As soon as they saw a lonely person , they had to drag him off to the woods Jesus Christ ! |
| 13 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 14 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 15 | The first leg of his travel plans will take him back to the elders of the church there , with some of the converts from Asia Minor and Greece , with a love gift for the relief of the hardship amongst the Christians . |
| 16 | Using the rock and the darkness as cover , she watched him as he broke into motion and that powerful stroke carried him out to the rocks and back . |
| 17 | The next day Creed asked Jed to drive him out to the Crumbles . |