Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] have [verb] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused to stop it — mainly because my mother had asked him to , I suppose . |
| 2 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 3 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 4 | Instead , his GP had sent him to Crosshouse Hospital near Kilmarnock , where he died from a colloid cyst in the brain . |
| 5 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 6 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 7 | Every harvest festival his father had taken him to the Salvation Army hall in Thurso and was generous in his support when the Salvationists needed to rebuild their hall . |
| 8 | He remembered the day in Paris , all those years ago , when his uncle had introduced him to the tall , quiet man to whom his life would be dedicated . |
| 9 | His background had taught him to be sober , frugal and methodical . |
| 10 | His mother had wanted him to be put into care and felt that she was unable to relate to him . |