Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] he to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or delivered him to a house in that vicinity ? |
| 2 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 3 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 4 | It was this very vision that drew him to a man with whom he had so little in common besides . |
| 5 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 6 | Not only has Mellor lost the cherished Cabinet post that thrust him to the forefront of British politics , but he has also waved goodbye to the Heritage Secretary 's salary of £63,047 . |
| 7 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 8 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 9 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 10 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 11 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 12 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 13 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |
| 16 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 17 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 18 | ‘ Victor 's story is that she was willing , she undressed and led him to the bedroom . |
| 19 | Tommy took him by the arm and led him to the chair . |
| 20 | He had a semi-hard-on the whole time he was bathing her , and without warning she grabbed him by it , and led him to the bath . |
| 21 | And she took his hand and led him to the bed . |
| 22 | Gebrec returned from putting the bus away and Bonard took him by the arm and led him to the terrace . |
| 23 | And it was not until Mrs Thackray 's tall , craggy fair-haired son had shouldered his luggage and led him to the top of St Jude 's Street that he had realized his peril . |
| 24 | When Edward suggested ablutions first he grinned engagingly and led him to the bar . |
| 25 | PCs Thomas McGrath , 45 , and John Milliken , 54 , chased their victim into an alleyway and battered him to the ground . |
| 26 | The sin of his blasphemy struck Gabriel like the sunbeams , between the shoulder-blades , and pierced him to the soul . |
| 27 | Police immediately arrested a young man and pinned him to a trolley , stifling his shouts about unemployment . |
| 28 | He struggled even more when four men pounced upon him and pinned him to the ground , but his frantic movements were more an attempt to breathe than to escape . |
| 29 | TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor . |
| 30 | and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up ! |