Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] to this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Everything was peaceful — everything but the man who 'd brought her to this place . |
| 3 | And he 'd been out shooting , but Tosh had give it to this feller |
| 4 | Pity for Alain 's mother had driven her to this gesture and she knew she would regret it . |
| 5 | What had brought them to this ancient grave ? |
| 6 | Inept leadership and disastrous hesitations had brought them to this . |
| 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 | What , she wondered , had brought him to this ungainly death ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When they were together , she felt in charge ; and the feeling made her forget all that had brought her to this . |
| 11 | For the first time in her life she faced the truth of her past , clear-eyed as her formidable father 's daughter ought to be , devoid of pride and love of self , and inspected what had brought her to this pass . |
| 12 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And then , unexpectedly , she was assailed by the strangest feeling that a greater force than Aunt Bertha had sent her to this place . |
| 15 | Wendy Bell ( Private & Offshore Banking , Edinburgh ) and Judith Stobbie ( Branch Services , Edinburgh ) who were in last year 's winning team failed to make it to this year 's final . |