Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 2 | He sold himself to a local pig farmer . |
| 3 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 4 | He led her to a chair . |
| 5 | He led her to a door ; the door opened out onto the street . |
| 6 | He led her to a waiting taxi and , as he held the door for her , for a brief instant their eyes met . |
| 7 | He led her to a tiny table in one corner , and she resolutely ignored the fact that nearly everyone else — the place was surprisingly crowded — wore slinky and fashionable black . |
| 8 | They strolled outside again and he led her to a relatively quiet spot and they drank and shared the cake between them . |
| 9 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 10 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 11 | He led me to a large , upright scallop of rock . |
| 12 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 13 | He led them to a dugout canoe half a mile downstream , and they poled slowly across to the other bank . |
| 14 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 15 | He invited her to a performance of Verdi 's Requiem — one of her favourite works — at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 16 | Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas . |
| 17 | He helped himself to a glass of mango juice before he replied . |
| 18 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 19 | He drew her to a stop and swung her round so he could see her face in the half-light . |
| 20 | He referred me to a specialist , and shortly after my twenty-first birthday I went into hospital for tests . |
| 21 | Her doctor was convinced that most of Edith 's problems were psychosomatic , but he referred her to a specialist who was interested in such cases . |
| 22 | He referred us to a dictum of Simon Brown J. in Reg. v. Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth , Ex parte Wachmann [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 1036 , 1040 , which is to the following effect : |
| 23 | Yesterday he played himself to a world cup spot , more consentrated and on the alert then ever . |
| 24 | At a press conference he committed himself to a big recruitment drive for Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , and , if necessary , to putting more resources into local authorities in order to make the bill work . |
| 25 | He committed himself to a singularly foolish plan for Empire Free Trade . |
| 26 | ‘ He condemned me to a kind of living death with my guilt — my shame . |
| 27 | There was no sense in which he " slowed down " , however , and in fact he compared himself to a travelling Sherlock Holmes . |
| 28 | John Wesley discussed faith in these terms when he compared it to a ‘ spiritual sense ’ in his Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion : |
| 29 | He directed me to a main road on the edge of Jaffa and to a small lane that ran off it to the north . |
| 30 | There , I asked the proprietor if there were any really old places I could visit and he directed me to a farm called La Valdieu . |