Example sentences of "he [verb] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 2 | A week later , while he was out jogging , he encountered the Commy old bat who had put the card in the flowers and made him look a fool to Viola . |
| 3 | It should allow him to produce a $5,000 to $20,000 Sparc portables line featuring 16-inch to 25-inch colour displays with resolutions of 1152 x 900 and 1280 x 1024 . |
| 4 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |
| 5 | Vuk 's next project was a Serbian dictionary , and to help him in collecting words to include in it he made a journey to Serbia in 1816 on his way back to Vienna , calling on his old friend the archimandrite Lukian Mušički in the monastery at Šišatovac in the Fruška Gora . |
| 6 | Then he made a sign to Sikes to tell Nancy to leave the room . |
| 7 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 8 | From this position Morris was soon able both to develop a practice of his own and to secure the fruits of public office : as early as 1727 he was referred to in print as ‘ the noted architect Mr. Morris ’ , and in 1731–2 he made a visit to Italy . |
| 9 | One of Ted 's first tasks was to pass on his advice about the installation of the starboard inner engine on Sugar , following which he made a sortie to RAF Catterick where several Shackletons at the Fire School there yielded a number of instruments that were compatible to the Lancaster . |
| 10 | An ordained clergyman , he became a chaplain to Queen Victoria in 1859 . |
| 11 | He became a book-keeper to Dom Joâo José da Câmara , one of the largest landowners at that time . |
| 12 | He became a party to household secrets and to Wagner 's cherished artistic plans . |
| 13 | In Moscow he became a convert to Marxism , having seen Capitalism in action in Europe . |
| 14 | In 1863 he led a tour to Paris and Switzerland ; in 1864 he ventured to Italy with parties of tourists . |
| 15 | In 1654 he led a squadron to Newfoundland , though a storm disabled his ship and forced him to turn back . |
| 16 | After several days in Nairobi he took the train to Mombasa where he caught a ship to England ; there , soon after my brother Dermot was born , he rejoined my mother . |
| 17 | ‘ He caught a flight to Frankfurt . |
| 18 | He may defend himself against attack , for example , cos he has a right to life and he may also defend his neighbours against attack . |
| 19 | ‘ He has a month to hand in his resignation and he has a right to appeal to the Queen . ’ |
| 20 | Eliot talked about Missouri and his childhood there and then , at the end of the meal , he proposed a toast to Stravinsky : " Another ten years for both of us ! " he said . |
| 21 | A few days later he received a summons to interrogation by one of these officers , which he refused to attend . |
| 22 | He dispatched a legate to Winchester conveying his reproaches and anger , and excommunicated Stigand , the Bishop of Winchester , whom the King and Earl Godwin had appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in Robert 's place . |
| 23 | He paid a visit to India to attend the Inter-Asian Conference . |
| 24 | In May 1990 he visited Niger and Nigeria , and on July 12-13 , 1990 , with President Saibou of Niger , he paid a visit to Togo . |
| 25 | He obtained a scholarship to Pembroke Hall , Cambridge , where he laid the foundation of the great learning for which he was later renowned , acquiring knowledge not only of Latin , Greek , Hebrew , Aramaic and Syriac , but also of fifteen modern languages . |
| 26 | At the age of fourteen he obtained a scholarship to Stowe School which had only been in existence six years . |
| 27 | A Croatian League match was abandoned when Rijeka players attacked the referee after he awarded a penalty to Inker Zapresic . |
| 28 | He raised a glass to Kelly . |
| 29 | Slowly he pulled a flower to pieces with his long fingers . |
| 30 | About 1829 , he submitted a plan to President Andrew Jackson for the complete re-organisation of the navy . |