Example sentences of "brought he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A desire to touch them , to feel the smooth hardness of living wood again , brought him across the tarmacadam to the grass , which felt spongy and cool under him . |
| 2 | The winner of five of his six races as a novice last season and probably an unlucky loser of the other , where he made mistakes at two consecutive hurdles , Morley Street was ridden with considerable discretion by Jimmy Frost , who brought him on the scene with a double handful between the last two flights , jumping to the front at the last , which he hit quite hard . |
| 3 | ‘ We brought him on this tour so he could develop , and I believe he could be the player to hold England 's batting together for the next ten years . ’ |
| 4 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 5 | In Stage VII however , when Napier 's ( Alliance ) surplus of 284 ( from Condy and Maginness , see above ) was transferred , five votes went to Bradford which brought him above McNarry who was eliminated in Stage VIII . |
| 6 | A conventional classics education at the equivalent of anOxbridge college brought him to Paris . |
| 7 | His report on the German military brought him to the attention of General George Marshal , on whose staff he later served . |
| 8 | Mr Kendall , you came through the hole , found Mr Goodhaven and brought him to the surface . |
| 9 | Isaac Asimov was born at Petrovichi , Russia , on Jan 2 1920 , the son of a rabbi who took brought him to America at the age of three . |
| 10 | Miles ' sixth round win over International Master Vernon Small of New Zealand brought him to 5/6 , equal with the untitled Ben Martin of Australia . |
| 11 | His 10,000-mile electoral odyssey , which started in Mrs Thatcher 's birthplace of Grantham and took him to more than 60 constituencies , finally brought him to Dulwich , just up the road from his predecessor 's Prime Ministerial bolthole . |
| 12 | In 795 they aided the Franks against rebellious Saxons , and in 798 the King of the Abotrites actually conquered Nordalbingian rebels , captured their leader and brought him to Charles . |
| 13 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 14 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 15 | He says that ‘ wanderlust and chance ’ brought him to the city which he associated particularly with Mozart , Strauss and Lehár , also with Freud and Einstein . |
| 16 | A bend in the path brought him to a stile at the entrance to Lulling Woods . |
| 17 | His engineering analysis of the problem brought him to many ideas that were very similar to Alexander 's in terms of posture and sitting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was totally obsessed with that dreadful little boy Grégoire — he even brought him to tea here , you know , and the child had no manners at all , he broke one of the Sèvres cups — Edouard said he was nervous … |
| 20 | When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie . |
| 21 | That brought him to Clermont-Ferrand for the French Grand Prix firmly in the lead of the championship but with a bad bout of flu . |
| 22 | It was as he was about to emerge from the far end of the wood that the figure on the ground brought him to a standstill . |
| 23 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 24 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 25 | She began by destroying the contents of the studio , slashing all his canvases , painted or not , then tracking the felon himself , and mounting an assault that literally brought him to his knees , in fear for his balls . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Mr Universe competition brought him to London , and he was recruited for a tour of South Pacific which needed men for the chorus . |
| 28 | After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth . |
| 29 | He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention . |
| 30 | This brought him to Rivers ' attention , and he became the earl 's deputy as receiver of the duchy of Cornwall . |