Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] he to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 2 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 3 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 4 | Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career . |
| 5 | Massingberd-Mundy , then chairman of the panel and a local steward since 1970 , claimed the stewards ' secretary , Major Peter Steveney , threatened to report him to the Jockey Club if he stuck to his personal view that both horses should be disqualified . |
| 6 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes , he would lose his temper and start breaking the furniture ; and his family decided to send him to the maison de santé at Gheel . |
| 8 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 9 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 10 | Only last week she had told Henry ( who had lived in Maple Drive for twelve years ) that she wished to welcome him to the neighbourhood . |
| 11 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
| 12 | This was not a principle calculated to endear him to the Inland Revenue or the men from Customs & Excise . |
| 13 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |