Example sentences of "the [noun] that [verb] brought he " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
4 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
5 | The pain that had brought him sharply back to consciousness seared violently through his stomach . |