Example sentences of "he [verb] to [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 2 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 3 | Also like Roosevelt , he attracted to Washington the brightest advisers he could find in the universities and the business community to fill places in the Cabinet and to surround him in the White House . |
| 4 | Although not an Ulsterman himself , he gave to Ulster the charismatic lead that transformed resistance into armed rebellion , and he was a popular platform speaker with Unionists on both sides of the Irish Sea . |
| 5 | In October he summoned to Amman the local notables favourable to his rule , where they asked him to put all Arab-occupied Palestine under his protection . |
| 6 | He explained to Helen the painful discomfort of his frequent erections while they walked together and his determination to avoid masturbation . |