Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 2 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 3 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 4 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 5 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 7 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 8 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 9 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 10 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 11 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 12 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 13 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 14 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 15 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 16 | But when he got it to the check-out the girl assistant asked him to pay £1.99 . |
| 17 | It had ended when he knocked her to the ground and slammed out of the room , hearing her laughter following him down the corridor . |
| 18 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |
| 19 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |
| 20 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 21 | ‘ Dëkuji mnohokrát , ’ she thanked Ivo very much when he escorted her to the door of his master 's home . |
| 22 | As he saw her to the door , he felt in his pockets . |
| 23 | ‘ Afraid of the dark ? ’ he said gently , as he shepherded her to the door . |
| 24 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 25 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 26 | He lifted her in his arms , his mouth still on hers with that fierce hot exploration as he carried her to the bed , slid her down on it , joined her . |
| 27 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 28 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 29 | As he drew her to the canal 's edge a gondola slid from out of the shadows . |
| 30 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |