Example sentences of "have [vb pp] him to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 9 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 10 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 11 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
| 12 | This passion for haute cuisine has led him to an involvement with the restaurant industry itself . |
| 13 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 14 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 15 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 16 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 17 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 18 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Love will have raised him to a place far above human strife . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As for Joe , who blithely missed a fracture a yard across , she could have pinned him to the wall with a scalpel , she was so cross . |
| 23 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 24 | He puts the case for Xanthippe ( aka Mrs Socrates ) , whose husband 's ‘ homosexual leanings , his absent-minded behaviour , his idleness and his love of proving everyone wrong would have endeared him to no wife of mettle . ’ |
| 25 | He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests . |
| 26 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 27 | As he was mental , I mean would you have taken him to a hospital or the station ? |
| 28 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
| 29 | He was described as an enthusiastic , determined and well-turned-out soldier with leadership qualities which could have taken him to the top warrant officer rank . |
| 30 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |