Example sentences of "[subord] he [adv] [vb past] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
| 2 | His second in command in 7 Staffel , Klaus Mietusch , was to rise to the rank of Major , gaining the Knights ' Cross and a credited 72 victories before he too fell to U.S. fighter pilots in September 1944 . |
| 3 | ‘ He did it at Kettering , at Cambridge and West Brom before he ever got to Manchester United . |
| 4 | When he finally returned to England in 1952 , an unreconstructed radical from the 1930s , he was appalled to discover that an acquiescent temper of mind , even Christianity itself , had returned to haunt a literary world he had once supposed forever cleared of the religious taint . |
| 5 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |
| 6 | Charles felt more hopeful about his mission , certain that when he actually got to Steen , he 'd be able to talk to him and clear Jacqui from his suspicions . |
| 7 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |