Example sentences of "him [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 2 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 3 | There are times , however , when even that motivation is not enough to push him on to success and the Spartathlon is the perfect example . |
| 4 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 5 | His success projected him on to Channel 4 's comedy series Packet of Three and its follow-up , Packing Them In , which starts this month . |
| 6 | Instead , David pointed out landmarks they passed and eventually Julia led him on to talk about his childhood holidays at Fiesole . |
| 7 | She had had him in to hospital . |
| 8 | Sin therefore reduces God to man 's image , scales him down to man 's size and substitutes man 's view of God for God himself . |
| 9 | When Mother — the marvellous Avis Bunnage , resisting all temptation to caricature — calls him down to breakfast , Crawford descends from the flies in a parachute . |
| 10 | why ca n't you send him down to court ? |
| 11 | So the way he 's , is n't it the way he 's dressed for that is fine , but you ca n't send him down to court like that . |
| 12 | When the time came , he would cut him down to size . |
| 13 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 14 | D'Arcy hated to bring him down to earth , but it had to be done . |
| 15 | His leadership is respected by all the rugby nations of the world , but a happy bunch of youngsters from Witham School brought him down to earth as they piled in yesterday at Twickenham . |
| 16 | This leads naturally to the splendid definitions of love in chapter ten as Rolle anticipates the disciple bringing him down to earth with a question : " You talk a great deal about love but what is it ? |
| 17 | In a way , she brought him down to earth . |
| 18 | We 'll force him down to Dane End or Watton . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well I told him , I told him not to feed but they 're fucking |
| 21 | Well I 'd prefer him not to go but |
| 22 | The boy would speak ‘ say the Chorus from Henry V and I would go further and further away from him , forcing him not to shout but to make certain I could hear him . |
| 23 | Clifford , 16 , who attends Clacton County High School , has brittle bones but his determination saw him through to victory in Saturday 's race , which was also open to the able-bodied . |
| 24 | That 's why you took the boy away from me … sent him away to sea . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We turn him over to DOS first and modify your mouse driver file from |
| 27 | The inspection of slaughterhouses which was one of his duties converted him permanently to vegetarianism . |
| 28 | Sara seldom saw him off to work . |
| 29 | The rest of the day followed predictably — Len 's breakfast , seeing him off to work , cleaning the small , semi-detached house they were steadily paying for , looking after the baby , making Len 's evening meal , sitting by the fire in the evening watching the telly , before they went to bed … |
| 30 | Item that Richard Curteys of Battle … entered the liberty of this lordship and made an assult on Richard Knyght against the peace by night ; and with a strong hand , with force and arms , to wit , with swords , bows and arrows , they unjustly took him outside the aforesaid lordship and carried him off to Battle , within the liberty and town of the abbot of Battle , against the peace . |