Example sentences of "him [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dream-man called Duvall seized Jimmy around the neck in a way which was surely too painful to be a dream and yanked him to his feet , throwing him on to a desk . |
| 2 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |
| 3 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 4 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 5 | One brandy would make him in to a number . |
| 6 | Cleared with the security guards at the desk he went into the lift that would take him down to a depth below the level of the Thames . |
| 7 | I watched as he engaged a man who led him down to a boat ; they climbed in , and the man began to haul away on his oars . |
| 8 | Could you drag him along to a meeting ? |
| 9 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
| 10 | Mercer drew him away to a comer , and slowly , haltingly , the general good humour resurfaced . |
| 11 | The full reality of the war came home to Tony when a soldier beckoned him over to a lorry and opened the back doors . |
| 12 | A win for Akinwande , who beat the much-hyped Herbie Hide for the 1989 ABA title , will elevate him close to a world top-10 rating , if not pushing him into the elite of one of the four organisations . |
| 13 | So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ? |
| 14 | While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy . |
| 15 | His role at the head of the military administration was a creative one and satisfied him up to a point . |
| 16 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 17 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 18 | Imperials both , they did not follow the local custom of farming him out to a neighbour . |