Example sentences of "[noun] brought him [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He struggled into his overcoat which Antony brought him from the hall . |
| 3 | His report on the German military brought him to the attention of General George Marshal , on whose staff he later served . |
| 4 | His reports on the collections brought him to the notice of the British scientific establishment and led to his appointment as naturalist in HMS Bulldog during a voyage under the command of Sir Leopold M ‘ Clintoch in 1860 to investigate a possible northern route for the proposed north Atlantic telegraph cable . |
| 5 | Corbett walked and argued with himself until the bells tolling for Compline brought him into the Abbey church with its lofty roof , pointed arches and round drum-like columns . |
| 6 | The sudden movement brought him into the path of a mourner , whose elbow struck him a glancing blow and sent him reeling . |
| 7 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 8 | Humber brought him into the Small Ward to look at my patient 's injured leg . |
| 9 | A few seconds brought him to the oak . |
| 10 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 11 | Agnew made his mark in midfield at Barnsley where his ability to produce a telling pass brought him to the notice of Blackburn , who shelled out 750,000 for the Shipley-born player . |
| 12 | Isambard 's hand on his shoulder brought him to the bench at the end of the room , where a film of stone-dust coated the floor , and several fragments of carvings and half-cut blocks of stone lay pushed together against the wall , as though discarded long ago . |
| 13 | By 1905 he had moved to St Petersburg where his growing reputation as a miraculous healer brought him to the attention of the Czar and Czarina . |