Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 2 | A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . ) |
| 3 | He had pledged it to the fans , but once again could n't deliver . |
| 4 | He had pushed himself to the limit . |
| 5 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 6 | Drew had denied that the clothing had been cleaned there and insisted that he had sent it to the cleaners in Swansea and Rochdale previously on the tour . |
| 7 | The man was a demon and he had disturbed her to the depths of her being . |
| 8 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 9 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 10 | Soon after he met Marigold he had taken her to the opera to see Die Walküre and afterwards had said without forethought : |
| 11 | He had taken her to the woods and she sucked his cock and he screwed her on a bed of moss and soft earth . |
| 12 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 13 | He had taken it to the President , and he had liked it , and he had signed it . |
| 14 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 15 | In the mid-1950s he had introduced them to the Naval College in Rhode Island . |
| 16 | She wondered whether he had mentioned it to the Inspector privately . |
| 17 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 18 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 19 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 20 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 21 | She shivered , her right hand moving restlessly towards the gold chain with its rectangular pendant which lay on the exposed skin of her neck above the scooped-out neckline of her dress : Rune 's parting gift given to her that dull morning when , after having insisted on collecting her from her hotel , he had driven her to the airport at Kastrup . |
| 22 | They were out on the villa forecourt and Guido was loading the car , the same racy-looking open-top red Alfa Romeo that he had brought her to the villa in on the day of her arrival . |
| 23 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 24 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |
| 25 | Also , he had paid her to the month 's end . |
| 26 | He had shown her to the guest bedroom . |