Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't seen her , but the closeness of him moved her to flight . |
| 2 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 3 | He made it to grammar school in Woking , leaving at sixteen with enough O-levels to get a traineeship on the local Surrey Advertiser . |
| 4 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 5 | When he sold him to Villa for £450,000 in 1988 , Ferguson made no secret of the fact that he was delighted to see him go . |
| 6 | In his case , not only did the uncovered secret last but he sold it to Life magazine for what was in 1955 the veritable king 's ransom of $25,000 . |
| 7 | He requested her to parcel up most carefully in an oiled cloth his other gun and have it sent to him . |
| 8 | Perhaps he expected her to curtsy . |
| 9 | As he applied it to Putt 's body the sickening stench of burning flesh rose into the air and one of the gipsy men uttered a faint sound of revulsion . |
| 10 | Accordingly , he asked me to lunch , and we went to the Russell Hotel , which was conveniently near his office . |
| 11 | He asked me to caddie for him for the rest of the year . |
| 12 | Yes , Joe must have been desperately lonely at that time , because he asked us to dinner the following evening at Chez Victor 's , one of his favourite restaurants . |
| 13 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 14 | He invited her to lunch at his club for international journalists in Carlton House Terrace . |
| 15 | About a week later I met Mr Jaggers by chance in the street , and he invited me to dinner that evening . |
| 16 | He gave us his telephone number at the Ministry , and one afternoon when we rang him there he invited us to dinner . |
| 17 | He helped her to cream and sugar , then , taking his own black , sat down opposite and looked at her . |
| 18 | In support of this submission he referred me to Heaven v. Pender ( 1883 ) 11 Q.B.D. 503 and Le Lievre v. Gould [ 1893 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 19 | He referred me to President of India v. La Pintada Compania Navigacion S.A. [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 where , in declining to extend the common law so as to enable a plaintiff to recover interest by way of general damages , the House of Lords were influenced by the fact that the legislature had twice intervened to deal with entitlement to interest . |
| 20 | We asked him where it came from in the bible , and he referred us to Exodus chapter 14 . |
| 21 | ‘ He wants me to machine-gun the observers this time . ’ |
| 22 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |
| 23 | According to Pilkington , ‘ One child he examined had such a lacerated tongue he compared it to sago pudding . ’ |
| 24 | His designs borrow freely from both ancient Egypt and modern architecture 's greatest hits — Beaubourg , the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie , the Louvre Pyramid ; he reapplies them to office blocks and shopping centres in Peckham with unabashed irrelevance . |
| 25 | He handed it to Burden and said , apparently inconsequentially : |
| 26 | He links it to verificationism ( the ‘ verification principle ’ ) , an earlier form of anti-realism . |
| 27 | He touched them to keeper . |
| 28 | He gets them to pool what they know about famine today , and then what they remember from their project about Ireland in 1848 . |
| 29 | Somehow Luke felt he owed it to Spike 's memory to save the mare . |
| 30 | He had no intention of selling this portrait and in his 1952 will he bequeathed it to Bowler . |