Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] him [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was a whiplash neck that required him to wear a brace between performances and did not heal completely for three years . |
| 2 | He was a keen student of the scriptures , particularly the Book of Revelations , and while meditating in his Calabrian retreat on the mystery of the Trinity and how it related to the time-process he had moments of intense spiritual illumination that led him to formulate a new millenarian philosophy of history . |
| 3 | And it was only the brave pleading of hostage Barbara Brady that persuaded him to hand the ammunition over , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 4 | As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism . |
| 5 | The observations that led him to make the distinction are deceptively simple . |
| 6 | It is his obsession with figures that leads him to make the crucial economic mistakes that he made . |
| 7 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 8 | At least by the time he received a freak , soccer-kickabout leg injury last month that forced him to miss the Test against South Africa , he had enjoyed a double-try England debut against Canada . |
| 9 | It was taking up the game at such a young age that caused him to hold the racket with both hands , rather than playing tennis , which he did to county standard at the age of 12 . |
| 10 | He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army . |
| 11 | It was only the threat of banishment from the game that persuaded him to wear the sponsors ' bibs at the tournaments . |
| 12 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
| 13 | ‘ This is my ghost ! ’ he would openly announce , in the kind of voice that enabled him to give an inimitable rendering of the handbag speech in The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| 14 | He wrote a 30-second piece for a shampoo commercial that enabled him to buy a house in the country . |