Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] have [verb] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 2 | But a disastrous business venture has reduced him to near-ruin . |
| 3 | Peter Conrad 's previous books of critiism ismand autobiography have shown him to be a master of a certain style of brilliant , allusive , penetrating prose . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |