Example sentences of "he was [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
2 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
3 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
4 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
5 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
6 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
7 | With horror she realized he was carrying her to the top of the stairs . |