Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His obsession with the social history of the Twenties and Thirties led him to Wilsford Manor , Tennant 's home , in 1986 , where he wooed the eremitic inhabitant with chocolates and orchids . |
| 2 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
| 3 | This led him into a series of acrimonious exchanges , both private and public , with several notable scientists of the day , but mainly with Carpenter and Thomson , whom he also accused of plagiarizing his results , particularly those dealing with the biology of the foraminiferans . |
| 4 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 5 | This led him towards ideas of conservation of energy , and of a unified field ; he believed that light and magnetism must act upon one another , and to the astonishment of contemporaries he indeed demonstrated that a magnetic field will rotate the plane of polarization of polarized light . |
| 6 | This led him to numerous adventures in penetrating to Kabul and beyond , which have been described by Smith , Barber-Lomax , and especially Alder , who studied much of the terrain , in enthusiastic detail . |
| 7 | This led him to an interest in hull forms and contact with the well-known naval architect William Froude [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | This led him in 1935 to discuss a newly ‘ discovered ’ agricultural Papuan tribe , the description of whose civilization Eliot utilized to criticize what he saw as some of the indulgences of his own inorganic civilization during the unemployment of the thirties . |
| 9 | This provided him with an army of allies — and potential spies — surrounding a wide area of the Livingstone Manor estate . |
| 10 | Walter also developed models that mimicked brain systems and this involved him with Norbert Wiener and others in early work on cybernetics . |
| 11 | This involved him in showing how Freud 's theory needed modification so that it could be integrated into the Parsonian social and culture systems theory . |
| 12 | This caught him off balance . |
| 13 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 14 | This prevented him from taking part in yesterday 's pre-qualifying after he had waiting 10 years for the chance of an F1 drive . |
| 15 | This prevented him from continuing his work . |
| 16 | She watched as Luke fought his own anger and then half threw him to the ground . |
| 17 | This turned him into a hero of the silent majority . |
| 18 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 19 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 20 | Two trucks overtaking one another brushed him to the side . |
| 21 | Some criticised his method of combating Bodyline by stepping away to cut the ball to the off , but Bradman claimed that this exposed him to a greater risk of injury than the orthodox type of batting . |
| 22 | Sinatra went through the worst period of his career when Universal signed him to a contract , put him in a disaster — Meet Danny Wilson ( 1952 ) — and then dropped him . |
| 23 | She caught hold of him by the hand and half ran , half pulled him across the room to the door . |
| 24 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
| 25 | And this sent him into sudden-death against Anders Forsbrand where Jamie again produced the magic wand , and downed a 20-foot birdie putt for victory . |
| 26 | This brought him to Rivers ' attention , and he became the earl 's deputy as receiver of the duchy of Cornwall . |
| 27 | This brought him to 45 . |
| 28 | This brought him to Rivers ' attention , and he became the earl 's deputy as receiver of the duchy of Cornwall . |
| 29 | This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford . |
| 30 | This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford . |