Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him to [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 2 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 3 | Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore . |
| 4 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 5 | Anyone who became Nawab expected to be rich , and took it for granted that he should reward those who had helped him to the throne . |
| 6 | He had also telephoned an old friend , who had invited him to a birthday party the following weekend , which he was looking forward to , although with some apprehension . |
| 7 | For that evening , as work finished , the Zoo Curator himself had summoned him to the building near the Cages where they did a lot of the scientific and veterinary work on the birds . |
| 8 | A new manager and a new accountant had alerted him to the alarming fact that , notwithstanding his private plane , home recording studio and sports cars , he was short of money . |
| 9 | It had reduced him to the same level , just another anonymous treatment that her body had required . |
| 10 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 11 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 12 | And yet , tonight , some demon that she did n't understand had driven him to an act she was sure he was now bitterly regretting . |
| 13 | There was growing scepticism about an earlier reported attempt on Nevzorov 's life : on Dec. 12 , 1990 , he allegedly had been wounded by a gunman who had lured him to a rendezvous in a Leningrad street by offering him sensitive documents . |
| 14 | Then , after his commission to complete Salvin 's Harlaxton in 1834 had introduced him to a far richer vocabulary , came the wonderful sequence of great Jacobean palaces of the 1840s — Falkland ( 1839–41 ) , Whitehill ( 1839–43 ) , Muckross and Stoke Rochford ( both 1841 ) , Dartrey ( 1843 ) , Revesby ( 1844 ) , and Poltalloch ( 1849 ) . |
| 15 | He remembered the day in Paris , all those years ago , when his uncle had introduced him to the tall , quiet man to whom his life would be dedicated . |
| 16 | At various points in his career , he played wonderful jazz , but by the time these four pieces — OM , Kulu Se Mama , Selflessness , and Ascension — were made in 1965 his relentless search for The Truth had brought him to the most uncompromising of unstructured freedom . |
| 17 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 18 | The slow sexual friction had brought him to the verge of orgasm . |
| 19 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 20 | Bewildering doubts and dissatisfied creativity had led him to the hills in search of a poetic subject ‘ that should give equal room and freedom for description , incident , and impassioned reflections on men , nature , and society ’ . |
| 21 | The path had led him to the edge of a cliff ! |
| 22 | After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion . |
| 23 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 24 | Years of sunlight had tanned him to the same mahogany brown as the island fishermen . |
| 25 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 26 | In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry . |
| 27 | Since Stephen had appointed him to the permanent position of maintenance manager , he was often out on the property . |
| 28 | From the photograph of it which still exists ( Plate 16 ) , it would appear that the reason Minton destroyed it was that its use of stylisation was no longer acceptable after Tindle 's self-portrait had converted him to a more realist approach , in part inspired by Freud . |
| 29 | Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman . |
| 30 | But as minister of finance under Zahedi he had become too well known for negotiating the new agreement with the oil companies , and so the Shah had exiled him to the Washington embassy . |