Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 2 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 3 | He knew that she thought him to be a stiff and unimaginative person . |
| 4 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 5 | Now that the lights are on I do n't suspect that she drove him to suicide . |
| 6 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 7 | It was n't that she wanted him to be here with her . |
| 8 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 9 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 10 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 11 | Sir Francis Walsingham , Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth , though himself a Puritan , was so impressed with Andrewes ' abilities , which he considered would be wasted in a country parish , that he caused him to be appointed Vicar of St Giles-without-Cripplegate in London , and at the same time prebend of St Paul 's Cathedral and chaplain both to the Queen and to the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 13 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |