Example sentences of "him [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 32 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 33 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 34 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 35 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 36 | Could I say to the minister and bring him back to the real world about regeneration . |
| 37 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |
| 38 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 39 | The subject of this exasperated thought sent him a look of enquiry , bringing him back to the present debate . |
| 40 | ‘ We must drive out Medoc , we must send him back to the Dark Ireland , and we must seal up the terrible Gateway that he opened before the creatures and the monsters of that Realm flood through it . |
| 41 | In the last analysis the 67 12s. 9d. would stand revealed ; the pen would be taken out of his fingers just before he signed across the excise stamp ; gentle hands would conduct him back to the comfortable shabby gloom of Flat 4 , 86 Leominster Gardens . |
| 42 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 43 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 44 | With Endill 's help , she led him back to the sick bay . |
| 45 | Given the dating technique of the time Halling Man was thought to have been Aurignacian , taking him back to the closing phase of the Ice Age . |
| 46 | He drove a wide circle out of the car park towards the slip-road that would take him back to the dual carriageway . |
| 47 | Michael Harvey followed him out to the hired car . |
| 48 | He gently insisted that Francis Morgan got a cup of tea , with sugar , down him before he escorted him out to the waiting car . |
| 49 | But a bridge ( ‘ Residents Only ’ ) led him across to the main channel of the Cherwell , where the water was still flowing fairly swiftly after the week 's earlier rains , and where pieces of debris were intermittently knocking into the sides of the banks , and then turning and twisting , first one way then the other , like dodgem cars at the fun-fair . |
| 50 | The wrong turns provide additional boundaries and constraints as the exercise proceeds , leading him ultimately to the same goal . |