Example sentences of "he to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I even went with him to the Black Bull that night , determined to spend my weekly wages on whatever he wanted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 8 | She hustled him to the far side of the street . |
| 9 | The teller of tall tales poked Rex in the chest with his pistol and steered him to the far end of the room . |
| 10 | When Ricky began taking Jenny out she was surprised to learn that Minton paid him money and had taken him to the Caribbean . |
| 11 | Persistent rain prevented a resumption until 5pm on Saturday and a single by Hick off Winston Benjamin took him to the 20,000 mark . |
| 12 | ‘ Give him to the Chief Statistician ? ’ |
| 13 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 14 | His service in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War took him to the Middle East , and there he was able to develop his interest in military architecture through the study of the citadel at Damascus , and the siege of the crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers . |
| 15 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |
| 16 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 17 | Maggie was still not in any condition to argue and she found herself following him to the dark little bar , almost running a gauntlet of greetings from the men standing around . |
| 18 | She had hold of his hand , she marched him to the front door . |
| 19 | He grabbed hold of Steve by the scruff of the neck , half lifted , half dragged him to the front door . |
| 20 | And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave . |
| 21 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 22 | I truly did mean just to ride him to the nearest hamlet . |
| 23 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 24 | Woolley chased him to the nearest bomb-crater . |
| 25 | A couple of hours ' leisurely stroll would get him to the Georgian capital shortly before dusk fell . |
| 26 | So that which makes man vulnerable to the force of the leaping devil , also opens him to the effortless strength of the leaping God which is known through the experience of inadequacy . |
| 27 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 28 | For all but the very ill or those admitted as an emergency the nurse can help the patient with his problem of being among unfamiliar people by introducing him to the other patients in his immediate vicinity . |
| 29 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
| 30 | Therefore Sharpe must die , and if he was not to be killed in a duel , then he must be taken care of in another way and , in the darkness as Lord John had said his farewells , Jane had urged him to the other way . |