Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 2 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 3 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 4 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |
| 5 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 6 | He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm . |
| 7 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 8 | On learning of this , Achym pursued his steward for three miles to Bury Down , where he did him to death at a place known as Slew Gate . |
| 9 | John Nutting , prosecuting , said that although he said nothing to detectives after his arrest , with a lock knife in his hand , they later found a chilling message daubed on his police cell wall . |
| 10 | Although he endeared himself to Arsenal 's North bank and played impressively enough on the outskirts of the box to sustain his reputation for skilful adventure , he rarely found the net at Highbury and began to look like over-paid hype to the footballing public . |
| 11 | ‘ Although he did something to his knee on the Monday after the Chelsea match with us , he met up with England on Friday and I 'm told , trained Saturday , Sunday , Monday , and Tuesday . |
| 12 | Although he mentions it to me , he finds he is unable to display this aspect to men . |
| 13 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
| 14 | ‘ Now , let's stop right there , ’ George said sharply , and his voice was louder than he meant it to be . |
| 15 | Lucille had left France because she loved Sharpe , whom she knew was a better man than he thought himself to be . |
| 16 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 17 | He loved shrubs , especially lilac bushes , which Jean had consequently banned from her garden , so he brought them to our place . |
| 18 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 19 | This reminded him that it was nearly time for church , so he heaved himself to his feet and went to make some more coffee , this time for Mrs Frizzell as well . |
| 20 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 21 | fell Thursday night , she got up to go to toilet during night and fell , Michael was sleeping there fortunately cos he 's working in Yorkshire and she got a pain on her elbow anyway in the morning , so he took her to hospital and she 'd fractured and they operated on her , same day , two hour operation , I have n't heard anything yet have we , we rang |
| 22 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 24 | Yeah , but he did n't need the modulator so he gave it to because he 's got a monitor , right ? |
| 25 | As his father had shown him jewels , so he showed them to Grégoire . |
| 26 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 27 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 28 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 29 | And Kegan was old-womaning around until he drove me to agreeing to talk to the wretched people . |
| 30 | ‘ If he committed himself to Britain by actually living here he might find a bit more warmth forthcoming from the British public . |