Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 2 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 3 | Thom picked up two oranges from the gutter but someone saw him and they took him to Derby Street police station and he got the sack from the police . |
| 4 | And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital . |
| 5 | She handed the glass back to him and he returned it to the restaurant . |
| 6 | ‘ And I want to ask him if he did anything to my goose . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 9 | To her surprise he took her arm , his hand under her elbow , forcing her to place her weight firmly on him as he helped her to her seat . |
| 10 | He held out his hand and she gave it to him , watching him as he put it to his lips , her eyes fixed in an almost mesmerised stare . |
| 11 | you ought to of asked him when he sold it to ai n't ya ? |
| 12 | But oh , how much she loved him when he held her to his heart , and was gentle , like now . |
| 13 | ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be . |
| 14 | Fairness requires that we judge a defendant on the facts as he or she believes them to be . |
| 15 | Indeed , ‘ so much engaged with his Collections and twenty other matters ’ was he that he left it to prince to contact his colleagues and subscribers to inform them of the ‘ results of his journey ’ . |