Example sentences of "[vb past] he to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , the convict 's transportation ship bore him to Botany Bay before a cure could be confirmed . |
| 2 | Self-taught , he worked as a shipping clerk in Madras until the mathematician George Hardy saw his work and invited him to England . |
| 3 | This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford . |
| 4 | This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford . |
| 5 | The solo climber was in a bad way , and they invited him to rope up with them . |
| 6 | So it was that as March 1981 drew to a close , Branson telephoned Rodney Birbeck , the editor of Music Week — the trade ‘ Bible ’ of the British record industry — and invited him to lunch . |
| 7 | As I wanted Eliot to meet us together , I invited him to lunch at this crowded chatter-filled establishment on 22 October 1945 . |
| 8 | In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 9 | There now appeared in Antwerp a charming young man with an Oxford degree , Henry Philips ; he soon won the confidence of the lonely Tyndale , who invited him to dinner and showed him his books . |
| 10 | When Kendall left , Colin Harvey moved him to right-back after a season . |
| 11 | The Germans evacuated him to Athens then to Salonika . |
| 12 | We have his word that he is not gay , so we will never know what drew him to Hampstead Heath after dark ; nor why he wears a wedding ring when he is unmarried . |
| 13 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 14 | His early interest in international co-operation drew him to Geneva and in 1931 he joined the International Labour Office . |
| 15 | It was Cizek 's reputation that drew him to Vienna ; it was the spirit of this outstanding man that he brought to his life 's work in Yorkshire . |
| 16 | But the children reported him to education chiefs . |
| 17 | But the children reported him to education chiefs . |
| 18 | The same trusty formula helped him to wrongfoot Squire Hurd in the leadership contest , and , in an interview with the Daily Mail three days before the ballot , the soapbox made a useful appearance . |
| 19 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 20 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |
| 21 | They went to Joseph Hyde — probably because he was the one connection they had between the Irish organization and me , and then they nearly beat him to death just so Lee could make his report to you . |
| 22 | They beat they beat him to death . |
| 23 | ‘ You did n't say anything about your brother so I never mentioned him to Emily Grenfell . |
| 24 | His GP referred him to hospital for a whole series of treatments , but nothing worked . |
| 25 | Ms Tierney , of Victor Paul Terrace , Edinburgh , told a fatal accident inquiry in Dunfermline yesterday : ‘ On 15 August when he complained of blinding headaches I took him to my GP who referred him to Milesmark hospital in Dunfermline with suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage . |
| 26 | At this range the flaws that reduced him to humanity , and a fairly limited humanity at that , were plain to be seen : the stubble of coarse reddish beard he had n't bothered to shave , the roughness of his weathered skin over the immaculate but brutal bones , the inlaid indifference of the blue eyes . |
| 27 | Kama also bears the epithet The Bodyless , a reference to his ruin with the god SHIVA , who reduced him to ashes for an act of impertinence . |
| 28 | There was , too , something unaccountable about Richard — perhaps the same wilfulness that induced him to live offshore although his marriage was in a perilous state — which attracted him to Pratts because celebrations were only held there for the death of a king or queen . |
| 29 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 30 | What attracted him to Mandy — something he refers to again and again — is her vulnerability , her sweetness , her child-like innocence . |