Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] him to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 2 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 6 | We will provide evidence that these qualities and critical observations led him to the conclusion that wheat products contained the factor responsible for the severe clinical symptoms of coeliac disease , at that time also called Gee-Herter 's disease , long before this thesis in 1950 . |
| 7 | Webb , 28 , who played for Northern until his medical studies took him to the west country , said : ‘ You 're a long time retired . |
| 8 | These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida . |
| 9 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 10 | A few seconds brought him to the oak . |
| 11 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 12 | Lord Morris said that a consideration of the facts and documents led him to the view that the solus agreement , the loan agreement and the mortgage could be linked together as an instance of one transaction and that the intention was that in providing that the mortgage should be irredeemable for the period of the tie it should become a support for the solus agreement . |
| 13 | El-ahrairah allowed himself to be persuaded and the soldiers took him to the king . |
| 14 | The policemen knocked him to the ground and kicked the life out of him . |