Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
2 | So he took me to a butcher shoppe with a bacon slicer in it and you know it turned out that he was right aftr all . |
3 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
4 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
5 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
6 | Quickly he led her to the saddle , pushing her face down onto its hard smooth surface , his hands caressing her intimately all the while , keeping her mind dark , her senses inflamed . |
7 | Yesterday he played himself to a world cup spot , more consentrated and on the alert then ever . |
8 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
9 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
10 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
11 | Well he takes them to the post office |
12 | ‘ If he is so keen on these ideas why does n't he apply them to the Cabinet ? |
13 | And he said to her did n't he take it to the tri erm |
14 | He come up the hospital , I was up in intensive care unit and me dad came round about half past ten at night and in he walked , he came straight down from Filey to see him , cos he used to think a lot of dad you see and dad did him years ago , he used to say he was more of a son than me own but then he brought her to the funeral , they would n't speak to me , would n't entertain me at all , I nearly fainted when I saw little one , she 's tall and thin |
15 | For a tick of eternity , his sapphire eyes seemed to burn through her , and then he said something to the woman , touched her lightly on the arm , and started across the room . |
16 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
17 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |
18 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
19 | Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas . |
20 | anybody then he wants me to the Thursday and I said yeah that 's alright . |
21 | There he brought himself to the notice of George Clifford , the wealthy Amsterdam banker and horticulturist ( see p. 50 ) , who had engaged young Linnaeus as his personal physician and as recorder of his garden plants . |
22 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
23 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
24 | Silently he handed them to the two sisters . |
25 | When she went upstairs he dragged her to the ground and after sitting on her stomach , he twice stabbed her in the cheek with a knife . |
26 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
27 | Steele escaped only weeks ago from Edinburgh prison and turned up in London where he glued himself to the railings at Buckingham Palace to protest his innocence before being re-arrested. escape , Steele telephoned the Daily Record newspaper . |
28 | Actually he pinpointed it to the day I came back from hospital . |
29 | Afterwards he took her to the entrance of the Priors Park Estate , where he released her . |