Example sentences of "him [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 2 | That 's why you took the boy away from me … sent him away to sea . ’ |
| 3 | Soldiers fired on Aristide 's home in the poor suburb of Plains de Cul-de-Sac , where he continued to live , killing his security chief before leading him away to army headquarters . |
| 4 | The inspection of slaughterhouses which was one of his duties converted him permanently to vegetarianism . |
| 5 | On their way to the magistrates they were stopped by Richard Baxter 's doctor who immediately ordered him home to bed . |
| 6 | But now parents Seamus and Martine can take him home to County Antrim , Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | His beautiful and adored mother quickly appeared from the sitting-room and hugged him nearly to death on the doorstep . |
| 8 | When he murmured and clung to her all the more , she was tempted to put him in his night-shift and take him straight to bed , but Sunday night was bath night , and he would sleep all the better for it , she thought . |
| 9 | Inquiry ‘ The doctor looked at the bottle and rushed him straight to hospital . ’ |
| 10 | Instead of taking him straight to hospital , the gatekeeper has him brought up here . |
| 11 | The fifth took him straight to hospital . |
| 12 | Since the Duke supported Constantine 's claim he may well have brought Bertrand to Normandy on the theory that it was safer than leaving him behind to foment trouble . |
| 13 | To Tolkien , with his theory of dragonish ‘ bewilderment ’ , it meant more likely ‘ stayed with its possessor ’ , driving him insidiously to greed and cunning . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's true enough , ’ said Meredith and , unable to apologise directly for his outburst at rehearsal , invited him instead to dinner that evening at the Commercial Hotel . |