Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’ |
| 3 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 4 | He would have liked to join them as he was tired of being a lurking Briton but his sense of loyalty would not allow him to defect to the other side . |
| 5 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 6 | The loyal voter may have voted consistently out of party principle , or because ties of dependence persistently obliged him to defer to the wishes of committed partisans amongst the local elite . |
| 7 | This inevitably made him suspect to the more militant . |
| 8 | Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground . |
| 9 | The slight upwards twist he gave to the bottle took the place of the wry smile he would never allow himself to give . |
| 10 | And Labour MPs immediately demanded he apologise to the British people as well . |
| 11 | Probably does nt even let him speak to the staff there . |
| 12 | ‘ A pity you did n't get him to attend to the little bitch before , ’ commented Rachel . |
| 13 | Mr McNally then asked him to indicate to the court any evidence which arose out of the two interviews held yesterday . |
| 14 | So Harrison had lost the first fall unfairly : in the second he had twisted his man feet up and then let him crash to the ground . |
| 15 | ‘ Then ask him to come to the phone . ’ |
| 16 | Only then did he return to the newspaper . |
| 17 | And and what sort of , when did he have ti , when did he go to the allotment , can you remember ? |
| 18 | ‘ When does he get to the point ? ’ |
| 19 | Now if you think you know what building or place is , put your hand up , but I think what we 'll do is actually let him get to the end of his description first . |