Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] him to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victor Mature it was , no less , who led him to the Lord . |
| 2 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
| 3 | Whether dining in the glittering salons of Mayfair or ministering to the sick in Yorkshire or Somerset , Smith reduced all who met him to a state of breathless mirth . |
| 4 | It was Alice Mair who directed him to the cottage . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |
| 6 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 7 | The duke 's London residence was Essex House , the property of his brother-in-law , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , another of Rose 's employers , who encouraged him to the extent of sending him to France for the first time , probably early in the 1640s . |
| 8 | The appellant failed to comply with the rules of the hostel , on one occasion leaving without permission , and was brought before the magistrates ' court who returned him to the hostel . |
| 9 | A friend of mine who accompanied him to a play disputed this , but it was true . |
| 10 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 11 | Tribute was also paid to Martha , a devoted friend and housekeeper over 25 years , who supported him to the end . |
| 12 | But Durie still feels uncomfortable at the club who backed him to the hilt in wiping out the damaging ‘ cheat ’ slur . |