Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I wish I 'd told him to , to … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 4 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I had invited him to my house . |
| 6 | Then I had to take him to a big detached house divided into flats . |
| 7 | At the very least I had expected him to be physically frail and mentally chastened ; a boy worn out by his long addiction and frightened of the criminal charges that hung over him , but instead he came out of the limo and down the dock with the frisky energy of a puppy . |
| 8 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
| 9 | I 've invited him to the rectory for dinner . |
| 10 | I 've allocated him to Room 403 , with instructions for all communications systems to be channelled through the central processor . |
| 11 | ‘ I have to put him to bed . |
| 12 | I have dedicated him to the blessed St John the Baptist and had him circumcised . ’ |
| 13 | Since he has offered her the role of Claudia Cohn-Casson , she has introduced him to journalists , script writers and directors . |
| 14 | She thought he must be disappointed that she was n't going home , and realised in dismay that she 'd wanted him to be glad to know she was staying . |
| 15 | When they emerged forty minutes later from the second-hand shop she 'd taken him to , he wore a tweed suit , laced boots , a heavy overcoat almost ankle-length , gloves and a trilby hat . |
| 16 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 17 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 18 | Could she have treated him to similar displays of ill will as she showed her daughter ? |
| 19 | As he was mental , I mean would you have taken him to a hospital or the station ? |
| 20 | The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 21 | But if she had to liken him to anything it would be an overgrown teddy bear in determined pursuit of his honey . |
| 22 | She had unbuttoned him to his waist , and pulled his shirt and vest out of his trousers , before she spoke . |
| 23 | He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café . |
| 24 | She had warned him to be wary of the coarse and petty jealousies of common people . |
| 25 | She 'd become accustomed to his remarks about her unwanted presence , but she had believed him to be resigned for the time being to having her around . |
| 26 | To be fair , she could n't recall actually hearing him say the boat was his , but he certainly had n't corrected her when she had assumed him to be the owner . |
| 27 | For some perverse reason she had wanted him to be annoyed . |
| 28 | Well , she had wanted him to be hopping mad the next time she saw him , and she was pretty sure she 'd succeeded . |
| 29 | She had expected him to be annoyed at the way she had played him along . |
| 30 | After all , he had not been the ogre she had expected him to be . |