Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room .
2 The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature .
3 We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived .
4 A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge .
5 Young 's lifetime passion for the large molluscs led him from the squid to the octopus .
6 Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water .
7 Grey eyes questioned him with the full seriousness of her young being .
8 Webb , 28 , who played for Northern until his medical studies took him to the west country , said : ‘ You 're a long time retired .
9 His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions .
10 We will provide evidence that these qualities and critical observations led him to the conclusion that wheat products contained the factor responsible for the severe clinical symptoms of coeliac disease , at that time also called Gee-Herter 's disease , long before this thesis in 1950 .
11 The file of other passengers followed him across the iron-hard snow , to where a queue of strange vehicles waited for them , engines ticking over .
12 Taking advantage of the discretionary powers granted him by the tsar , he asked for a treaty guaranteeing Russia 's right to a protectorate over the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire .
13 The ex-Scots Guardsman claims Thai police framed him over the death of fiancee Pranon Sauychaisri , 30 , who fell from the balcony of their flat .
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