Example sentences of "him [adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE man responsible for uncovering South Africa 's hit-squad scandal , the condemned security branch policeman Almond Nofomela , is being brought to court tomorrow by the authorities who are seemingly intent on hurrying him on to his postponed appointment with the hangman . |
| 2 | Kalchu reached over to where he and Hārkini had been squabbling , picked him up by both elbows and pulled him on to his lap . |
| 3 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
| 4 | Weller plays the Burroughs character , a roach-exterminator whose wife , played by Judy Davis , turns him on to his own insecticide . |
| 5 | She pushed the Beretta into her anorak pocket then rolled him on to his back and pulled off his black balaclava . |
| 6 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 7 | Her smile slowly broadened , then , without warning , she launched herself at him , knocking him on to his back , her kisses overwhelming him . |
| 8 | Towards the end , and no doubt full of beef and beer , they got him on to his feet ; but despite encouraging shouts he was speechless . |
| 9 | She rolled him on to his shoulder and two cornflowers stared at her . |
| 10 | Feeling her body respond again , she slowly rolled him on to his back . |
| 11 | Laura strode over and booted him on to his back . |
| 12 | They connected up the drip , set it running and turned him on to his side . |
| 13 | The best that could be for the the Simpson woman is that at least when they had married , she stuck to him right to his death . |
| 14 | To let him in to his mother for a suck , |
| 15 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
| 16 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 17 | In the end she got him down to his Micronauts , his plastic airport , and a bag of Dinky cars . |
| 18 | The mailed hand in his kept hold firmly enough to draw him down to his knees as its owner sank back into the turf . |
| 19 | When traders tracked him down to his hotel room , he would n't answer the door . |
| 20 | ‘ But it is the owner 's view that Jimmy does not suit Cool Ground , and he says he prefers a jockey who sits still and allows the horse to take him along to his fences . |
| 21 | He kept no symbols of his religion to give him away to his comrades . |
| 22 | Friends drove him away to his first night of freedom in twenty months . |
| 23 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't want you collapsing on us — not good for the department 's reputation , ’ she joked lightly , and wheeled him round and handed him over to his wife . |
| 25 | The incomprehensible incantations would cast no spell over him , any more than the tattoo of the spider had glued him forever to his gang . |
| 26 | You ask a man who has a bit more experience and plenty of common sense ad he 'll say to you , ‘ Get the lad in , bring him home to his parents and the father will give him a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 27 | He met people , made friends and absent-mindedly let them drive him home to his parents , forgetting the bride upstairs who was waiting for him to come and claim his ‘ marital rights ’ . |
| 28 | The ooze swallowed him up to his knees . |
| 29 | They milled around and tidied him up to his satisfaction and went on their way singing : |
| 30 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |