Example sentences of "[vb past] him [verb] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 2 | Professor Lawrence Lindsey 's studies ( National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No 2215 , 1987 ) led him to conclude that the optimum revenue-raising rate is somewhere between 9% and 21% . |
| 3 | Equally serious , his trucker 's rudimentary knowledge of first-aid , led him to suspect that the pink frothy blood evident around the badly swollen nose and mouth could mean a punctured lung . |
| 4 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |
| 5 | He employed the future founder of the house of Bollinger , Jacques Bollinger , then aged nineteen , to sell his wines in Germany , but it was Müller 's experience at Veuve Clicquot which made him realise that the Russian market possessed the greatest potential for sales . |
| 6 | His attachment to the ‘ theory of courage ’ made him believe that the Western world in his lifetime had been short not of wit or of strength , but of will . |
| 7 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |