Example sentences of "[vb pp] he to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 2 | Their approaches to Pope Boniface VIII and the resulting admonitions from the Pope condemning English invasions of the Papal fief of Scotland had incensed Edward and driven him to some of his more savage oppressions . |
| 3 | Instead , Farbrace found his way blocked by Steve Marsh 's superior batting and duly followed ‘ Nobby ’ to Lord 's , where the same handicap has consigned him to 2nd XI obscurity . |
| 4 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 5 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 6 | The press scoffed at his walks in the Kalahari Desert , at his fascination with lost and ancient tribes ; but experiences like that , plus a lifetime of travelling all over the world , seeing underdeveloped and overdeveloped countries and every kind of political regime , has brought him to this viewpoint . |
| 7 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 8 | It 's I who 've brought him to this ! |
| 9 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 10 | What , she wondered , had brought him to this ungainly death ? |
| 11 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 12 | The Uttoxeter race last month , when he was third to today 's rival Laura 's Beau , will have brought him to full racing fitness after just four runs ( two over hurdles ) in the intervening 23 months . |
| 13 | Long before we arrived , Herr Wendling had made a great reputation for him and has now introduced him to all his friends . |
| 14 | Confronting Nubenehem with his problem , she had introduced him to another customer of the City of Dreams , an elderly papermaster with flaccid skin and a bald pate ringed with long , dank hair . |
| 15 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 16 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 17 | Could she have treated him to similar displays of ill will as she showed her daughter ? |
| 18 | It could and should have led him to great opportunities . |
| 19 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 20 | It was true she 'd avoided him , had gladly left him to Merry , but it had n't occurred to her that he might be aware of that . |
| 21 | He is now on his eighth passport , having left England 82 times on trips that have taken him to most countries in the world . |
| 22 | In terms of his career , Bristol Rovers ' FA Cup tie at Aston Villa on Saturday is Allison 's last ride on a footballing roller coaster that has delivered him to gravity-defying heights and suicidal lows . |
| 23 | After studying the option , or take-note , Roe replied on the 19th July , from Liverpool , pointing out that only the moderate Royalty and the advanced price of copper ( this was around £80 per ton for metal ) could have reconciled him to such an " unprecedented manner of attaining a Mineral lease . " |
| 24 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |