Example sentences of "[vb pp] he to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 2 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 3 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 4 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 5 | ‘ The Soviets have now transferred him to a Labour Camp . ’ |
| 6 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 7 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 8 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 9 | Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore . |
| 10 | The weight in his heart seemed to have tethered him to the pavement , and he had to force himself to turn away , and some seconds after she had disappeared through the doorway . |
| 11 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 12 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 13 | Later his mother apprenticed him to a lithographic printer . |
| 14 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 15 | I bred him and love the horse , and I 'm delighted to have sold him to an owner who will look after his interests . |
| 16 | Anyone who became Nawab expected to be rich , and took it for granted that he should reward those who had helped him to the throne . |
| 17 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 18 | The constable might not have minded the instant promotion but I doubt if the commissioner would have been too happy had I relegated him to the ranks ! ) |
| 19 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |
| 20 | Love will have raised him to a place far above human strife . |
| 21 | Here is the story of his life and of the succession of movies , remarkably similar in tone and most of them featuring actors like Robert de Niro and Harvey Keitel , which have raised him to the status of ( perhaps ) the world 's most famous film director . |
| 22 | He had also telephoned an old friend , who had invited him to a birthday party the following weekend , which he was looking forward to , although with some apprehension . |
| 23 | I 've invited him to the rectory for dinner . |
| 24 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 25 | The farmer 's tied him to the fence to stop him butting the sheep and that 's deemed to be cruel . |
| 26 | For that evening , as work finished , the Zoo Curator himself had summoned him to the building near the Cages where they did a lot of the scientific and veterinary work on the birds . |
| 27 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 28 | But his choice of verse form has condemned him to the weakness which mars all attempts to match the Horatian strophe with the English quatrain — the weakness of expansion . |
| 29 | A new manager and a new accountant had alerted him to the alarming fact that , notwithstanding his private plane , home recording studio and sports cars , he was short of money . |
| 30 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |