Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 2 | He 'd invited me to a supper dance after the show on Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd taken her to a pub — The Crumpled Horn — before walking to the park . |
| 4 | Penry was tactful enough to leave her to her own devices once he 'd directed her to a chemist . |
| 5 | As a great favour , the well-known proprietor of a cigar shop he frequented introduced him to a ‘ gentleman ’ with a den in Piccadilly who offered to ‘ help him out of his difficulty ’ by lending him the money . |
| 6 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |
| 7 | The retired bank manager , who claims to be a Di fan and a royalist , said he ‘ sweated ’ over whether to destroy the tape or approach the princess about it before he decided to hand it to a newspaper . |
| 8 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 9 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 10 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 11 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 12 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 13 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 14 | He had taken her to a modest hotel in Albemarle Street , and booked in there as Mr and Mrs Arkwright . |
| 15 | At one point in Vikram Seth 's novel in verse The Golden Gate ( Faber , 1986 ) , the author interrupts the narrative to tell us that his idea for the book had not been well received when he had mentioned it to a publisher : |
| 16 | On the morning of the shooting at Bunbeg bus terminal , he had accompanied them to a firing range at Kinnegar to familiarise them with weapons used by the terrorists . |
| 17 | Then he had steered her to a chair , rather than the sofa , which would probably have provoked a new attack of ‘ imagination ’ . |
| 18 | He wanted to take me to a disco but I said no . |