Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | DuĊĦan 's ambition led him to aspire to the throne of Byzantium . |
| 2 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 3 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 4 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 5 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 6 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 7 | Though no world-beater in the trailblazing Thompson mould , he emerged as Britain 's number one decathlete last summer , taking the bronze medal at the World Student Games in Sheffield and claiming the sole British place for the World Championships in Tokyo , where a hamstring tear forced him to withdraw on the eve of competition . |
| 8 | But a prodigious memory enabled him to retain to the end of his life a total recall , whether of a text of scripture or a line of the Iliad or a passage in Plato 's Dialogues . |
| 9 | With Waqar on Pakistan 's tour of England , Bryson will open the bowling with Martin Bicknell for whom this is an important summer after a winter operation on his left shoulder forced him to withdraw from the England A tour . |
| 10 | Dutta said jewel merchant Guppy asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian company . |
| 11 | Before he left , the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline asked him to report on the treatment of convicts in Van Dieman 's Land . |
| 12 | The last heard of Gert was in 1943 when he tried and failed to join the RA F. Bloomsbury House urged him to settle for the Pioneers . |
| 13 | BORIS BECKER disappointed his West German supporters for the second consecutive year when a knee injury forced him to withdraw from the Stuttgart Classic here yesterday . |