Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 2 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 3 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 4 | ‘ I would ask you to stay longer , but His Majesty the King has invited me to a masque at Richmond . ’ |
| 5 | " Who has invited you to a dance ? " |
| 6 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 7 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
| 8 | This passion for haute cuisine has led him to an involvement with the restaurant industry itself . |
| 9 | I am , by nature , one of the latter , but I yearn to be one of the former , and many years of travelling has led me to a kind of uneasy compromise . |
| 10 | At the opposite extreme , an English philosopher has tamed it to a position of common-sense moderation : |
| 11 | This time a secretary answered , saying that as her employer ‘ has a large backlog of books to read , he found the addition of another one rather an embarrassment … he has passed it to a friend in a London hospital . ’ |
| 12 | Now as the city of Manchester goes all out to win the race to host the Olympic games … our own town of Banbury has beaten them to a gold medal … the local boatbuilding firm of Laser will be racing at the next Olympics and to celebrate they 're having a water sports week |
| 13 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 14 | He 'd invited me to a supper dance after the show on Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 16 | He 'd taken her to a pub — The Crumpled Horn — before walking to the park . |
| 17 | Penry was tactful enough to leave her to her own devices once he 'd directed her to a chemist . |
| 18 | If you half-closed your eyes and looked at it you might have likened it to a string of coloured beads . |
| 19 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 20 | He would have to train her to a line . |
| 21 | You would n't ha you would n't have done it to a dog though . |
| 22 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 23 | ‘ He could n't have sold it to a Jew . |
| 24 | Love will have raised him to a place far above human strife . |
| 25 | If you want to enter the current date you can use @NOW but to fix this date ( so that it does not change to the current date next time you load the spreadsheet you will have to convert it to a value . |
| 26 | Having waved them to a table , he flourished two wine glasses , which he filled to the brim with an excellent Chianti , before heading for the kitchen . |
| 27 | I could have directed you to a loch that is right by the side of the road where you would have caught nothing all day . ’ |
| 28 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 29 | As he was mental , I mean would you have taken him to a hospital or the station ? |
| 30 | Yes , when you get a bit bigger we 'll have to take you to a pantomime and then you 'll be able to say that . |