Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 2 | I 'm an Army officer and all I want to do is persuade him to go back to the Army . ’ |
| 3 | I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair . |
| 4 | To get him to go out to the Lock with her , Marie had told Simon all sorts of lies . |
| 5 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
| 6 | He was very normal , you could see him walking down to the bank Monday to Friday , but he 's got this completely eccentric side to him . ’ |
| 7 | Before the Collector continued about his business , Dr McNab asked him to come over to the window for a moment . |
| 8 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 9 | The queasiness which had first compelled him to come back to the house that evening clawed him again , and kept him in the chair under her fond glances and bids to intimacy . |
| 10 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 11 | The nuptial pads on a male frog 's feet enable him to grip on to the females tightly when mating . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't see him going back to the Council , ’ Dann said banteringly . |
| 13 | After a short while she saw him emerge on to the quayside , a tall , lean man with the kind of rangy , loose-limbed walk which drew admiring glances from any female within range . |
| 14 | He had behaved disgracefully on Thursday and I was going to make him face up to the fact on Friday . |
| 15 | As she thrashed his bare arse with scorching strokes , she watched him ejaculate on to the floor . |
| 16 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 17 | She watched him go over to the coffee-machine hissing on a cabinet near one of the windows , saw him deftly take cups and saucers from a cupboard . |
| 18 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 19 | I saw him go up to the house- ’ |
| 20 | You say you saw him go up to the house and take something ? |
| 21 | Let him go back to the corner thinking , ‘ I 'm working with the boss . ’ ’ |
| 22 | At lunchtime Desmond had n't been able to place his usual bets because she 'd sent him haring back to the digs to see if an urgent letter had arrived . |
| 23 | They had fallen , both of them , he could picture it exactly in his mind , and he could remember Kairallah , calling to him to get back to the car . |
| 24 | I was going to ask you to help me to make him come back to the warren . |
| 25 | When he was naked , she helped him climb on to the desk . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 27 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 28 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 29 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 30 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |