Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ambulance had rushed him to hospital , but attempts to save him had failed . |
| 2 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 3 | Only Anthea 's insistence had brought him to her room , where matters had taken their own turn . |
| 4 | Martin learnt later that another team had beaten him to it . |
| 5 | He underwent a similar experience after a teacher had taken him to North London AC in his first year of secondary school . |
| 6 | Frankie had been told to dress in a hurry , and Sweetheart had taken him to the park near the old railway bridge in Horton Park Avenue . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At various points in his career , he played wonderful jazz , but by the time these four pieces — OM , Kulu Se Mama , Selflessness , and Ascension — were made in 1965 his relentless search for The Truth had brought him to the most uncompromising of unstructured freedom . |
| 9 | The policeman explained that Oliver had become ill , and the old gentleman had taken him to his house in the Pentonville district of north London . |
| 10 | Richard 's catastrophe had brought him to himself . |
| 11 | His background and knowledge had directed him to the branch of military intelligence centred on Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 14 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 15 | The Colonel had summoned him to Cancun for the meeting at the Rena Victoria Hotel . |
| 16 | His mother and father had raised him to be a law-abiding Christian . |
| 17 | Every harvest festival his father had taken him to the Salvation Army hall in Thurso and was generous in his support when the Salvationists needed to rebuild their hall . |
| 18 | From the photograph of it which still exists ( Plate 16 ) , it would appear that the reason Minton destroyed it was that its use of stylisation was no longer acceptable after Tindle 's self-portrait had converted him to a more realist approach , in part inspired by Freud . |
| 19 | Most important was the fact that personal circumstances and creative needs of each man had impelled him to be , in a phrase which Eliot applies to Lawrence in After Strange Gods but which applies equally well to himself , a ‘ restless seeker for myths ’ . |
| 20 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , acknowledged that his record-breaking journey had taken him to the limits of his endurance . |
| 21 | He remembered the day in Paris , all those years ago , when his uncle had introduced him to the tall , quiet man to whom his life would be dedicated . |
| 22 | James ' research for this brilliant book had taken him to the archives at Bordeaux , whereupon he discovered that his fellow Trinidadian , Eric Williams , had been there before him . |
| 23 | Gotti , whose sartorial taste had led him to be widely known as the " Dapper Don " , was charged by federal prosecutors with five murders , extortion , illegal gambling and obstruction of justice . |
| 24 | The path had led him to the edge of a cliff ! |
| 25 | His background had taught him to be sober , frugal and methodical . |
| 26 | The slow sexual friction had brought him to the verge of orgasm . |
| 27 | Instead , his GP had sent him to Crosshouse Hospital near Kilmarnock , where he died from a colloid cyst in the brain . |
| 28 | Another hour had taken him to a five-mile strip of dual carriageway cut through downland . |
| 29 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 30 | And Preston very dubious , because she did n't look like she had a baby in her tummy and experience had taught him to be very sceptical about any information his family gave out , especially on the subject of babies and where they came from . |