Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television .
2 I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station .
3 Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on .
4 In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End .
5 His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby .
6 Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation .
7 The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million .
8 He led her to the far room where she had found Leo .
9 He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper .
10 To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts .
11 He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester .
12 After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench .
13 Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire .
14 He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year .
15 Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion .
16 Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out .
17 Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting .
18 He drove her to the very edge of ecstasy and then , as the quivering tide of sensation gathered momentum , he tipped her over and down into the fiery vortex .
19 Silently he handed them to the two sisters .
20 He returned it to the failed initiate without comment .
21 He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease .
22 He raised it to the blushing Thérèse .
23 He tied it to the hanging bell rope .
24 Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared .
25 He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level .
26 They stepped off the kerb and Nicolo slipped his arm around Caroline 's waist as he guided her to the other side of the street .
27 He took her to the Regal Arms Hotel .
28 After threatening Miss Slater with a knife , he took her to the converted pub in Newark , Nottinghamshire , he used as a workshop for his tool repair business .
29 He took her to the deserted camp laundry : a large hut with a great copper the size of a steam-engine , a line of deep sinks , and rows of drying lines .
30 He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well .
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