Example sentences of "this [vb past] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day his chest got considerably worse and this led to his hospitalization . |
| 2 | This led to his appointment by the home secretary to a commission on explosions of compressed gas cylinders ( 1895–6 ) . |
| 3 | This led to his prediction that electromagnetic waves existed and would propagate at a velocity c equal to the ratio of electromagnetic to electrostatic units of measurement . |
| 4 | King was a minor poet and staunch Royalist ; this led to his flight from Chichester at the time of the Cromwellian bombardment of the city . |
| 5 | This led to his writing Zen and the Art of Climbing Mountains , about to be published by Element Books . |
| 6 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 7 | This added to his ascendancy over the tyros round his Cabinet table in the autumn of 1964 , as he now acknowledges . |
| 8 | Regarding his illness , Saw commented ‘ that this conformed to his idea of Aung San 's character … [ he will ] always be sick when anything big is on hand ’ . |