Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 2 | The perusal of it swelled his heart with joy ; he found he had to read it twice , and the pleasure of its proclamation left him flushed from top to toe . |
| 3 | He attached himself to the Sussex magnate Thomas Sackville , then Lord Buckhurst and later lord treasurer and first Earl of Dorset [ q.v. ] , who in 1594 recommended him to act as deputy to John Parker in a Chancery post as ‘ of honest sort and behaviour , of such good knowledge and skill for the discharge of such a place , and withall having so good means and ability to live ’ . |
| 4 | He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail . |
| 5 | He became enormously excited and , as the rest of the party started back towards us with a huge mound of lavatory paper balanced on the ravioli , he hopped from foot to foot , clutching my arm . |
| 6 | His skeletal body clothed in dirty rags looked grotesque as he hopped from foot to foot , to the mocking laughter of the tinkers . |
| 7 | ‘ This is immensely interesting , ’ he murmurs from time to time . |
| 8 | ROBERT DUNLOP made it a treble when he led from start to finish to take the second 250cc race . |
| 9 | TOM McKean completed a wonderful weekend for Scottish athletics when he led from gun to tape to take the 800 metres crown . |
| 10 | Mr Overbye describes the changes in theory and observation accurately , engagingly and enthusiastically , though his prose is occasionally Doppler-shifted towards the purple as he dashes from subject to subject . |
| 11 | He moved from parish to parish , almost always because of the complaints of the affronted orthodox ; far from making compromises , he founded the Guild of St Matthew , one of the earliest focuses of Christian Socialism . |
| 12 | He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week . |
| 13 | Lights flared as he moved from room to room , obviously checking the rest of the house . |
| 14 | The aim of the exhibition is to show the quality and variety of Jordaens 's work and to reassess where he stands in relation to Rubens , by whom he has always been overshadowed . |
| 15 | Phelips died ; Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset [ q.v. ] , was disgraced ; and in 1626 he reported on Parliament to Sir Dudley Carleton ( later Viscount Dorchester , q.v . ) . |
| 16 | He wandered from room to room without aim , and without knowing whether he was on the top floor or in the basement , ‘ just up and up and on and on and on ’ . |
| 17 | He charged from seat to seat , dodging giant feet , discarded shoes , dropped newspapers and bags . |
| 18 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 19 | He punched the air and yelled something as he weaved from side to side across the road , zig-zagging into the distance . |
| 20 | ‘ Ferkin ell , ’ he says , in a special humorous artificial voice which he uses from time to time with Phil , to ward off jokes he has not entirely understood . |
| 21 | He came by train to Romorantin and Jean-Claude rode to the station to meet him . |
| 22 | He woke from time to time and on each occasion drank a little more . |
| 23 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 24 | Adrian seemed very fond of his grandmother , and spoke of her kindly as he drove from lough to lough , through enchanted countryside . |
| 25 | But no desert when it comes to wild life , for this is the Flow Country where David Bellamy brought to popular attention how deep he could sink as he cavorted from tuft to tuft of floating bog . |
| 26 | ( He allows from time to time that it is also concerned with the quality , bad , but bad takes a decidedly second place in his discussions . ) |
| 27 | He was employed on the reconstruction of the bishop of Winchester 's palace at Wolvesey , and he acted from time to time as architect as well as builder . |
| 28 | He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time . |
| 29 | Another expression of this psychic force is found in the cynicism and bitterness he displayed from time to time when he grumbles about the dark , the flies and the cold ; but other references are very much stronger , e.g. ‘ The Cuckold 's Song ’ etc ) . |
| 30 | Yet there are others , on the fringes of power , who see him quite often at meetings of the government , at the very few moments when he shows himself to carefully selected groups of people , or when he travels from place to place . |