Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Carry Ons ’ allowed him to go home to read in the evenings , to sit playing his classical piano records in the still sparsely-fitted flat at Farley Court , an apartment even more spartan than his previous homes , complete with whitewashed walls . |
| 2 | Turning to look up at him , Hilary absently took the glass he was holding out , then watched him walk across to sit on the sofa . |
| 3 | Nicholson had never carried out his threat to sue , though Hugo had endured some worrying weeks waiting to see if papers would be served on him , and the experience had made him determined never to work for the likes of Nicholson again . |
| 4 | He goes on to speak of the hardships he endured , the thirst , the hard work the opposition , the homelessness , the abuse , and concludes ‘ we have become , and still are , the refuse of the world , the offscourings of everything ( 1 Cor. 4:8–13 ) . |
| 5 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 6 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 7 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 8 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 9 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 10 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 11 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 12 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 13 | He tried hard to get into the spirit of the thing . |
| 14 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 15 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 16 | When the band split up in 1985 Sting started out on a solo career which has seen hits like Spread A Little Happiness and If You Love Somebody , but he has yet to get near the success , in the singles chart at least , of one of the biggest-selling pop groups in history . |
| 17 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |
| 18 | Do n't you think that the fact that the father has made a capital settlement , that he has sometimes to travel to the other end of the country to see his child , do n't you think that should be taken into account . |
| 19 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 20 | Describing the DC as " a rotten apple with a healthy core " , he proposed chiefly to build on the existing cross-party support for his proposals to reform electoral law by referendum . |
| 21 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 22 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 23 | He fished a wad of papers from his top pocket as he strolled across to cut through the retaining rope on the tarpaulin . |
| 24 | He came across to look at the image open on my lectern : a wild man covered in shaggy green fur was fighting a little hon with a club . |
| 25 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 26 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 27 | He learnt how to talk in the car on the way home , even when he did n't want to ; he learnt how to take a shower in somebody else 's bathroom without embarrassing himself . |
| 28 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 29 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 30 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |