Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] him to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie had been told to dress in a hurry , and Sweetheart had taken him to the park near the old railway bridge in Horton Park Avenue . |
| 2 | A new manager and a new accountant had alerted him to the alarming fact that , notwithstanding his private plane , home recording studio and sports cars , he was short of money . |
| 3 | At various points in his career , he played wonderful jazz , but by the time these four pieces — OM , Kulu Se Mama , Selflessness , and Ascension — were made in 1965 his relentless search for The Truth had brought him to the most uncompromising of unstructured freedom . |
| 4 | His background and knowledge had directed him to the branch of military intelligence centred on Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , acknowledged that his record-breaking journey had taken him to the limits of his endurance . |
| 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 | James ' research for this brilliant book had taken him to the archives at Bordeaux , whereupon he discovered that his fellow Trinidadian , Eric Williams , had been there before him . |
| 10 | The path had led him to the edge of a cliff ! |
| 11 | The slow sexual friction had brought him to the verge of orgasm . |
| 12 | After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion . |
| 13 | Bewildering doubts and dissatisfied creativity had led him to the hills in search of a poetic subject ‘ that should give equal room and freedom for description , incident , and impassioned reflections on men , nature , and society ’ . |
| 14 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 15 | Years of sunlight had tanned him to the same mahogany brown as the island fishermen . |