Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 2 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 3 | ‘ Now I can see him going on to the next one , the way he is playing . |
| 4 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 5 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 6 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 7 | Owen had him taken back to the underground room . |
| 8 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 9 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 10 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 11 | He passed on to an empty table . |
| 12 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 13 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 14 | He harked back to the golden age of a be-blazered world where all God 's children had the basics banged into them , and video nasties were confined to close encounters with beasties in biology lessons . |
| 15 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 16 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 17 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 18 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 19 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 20 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 21 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 22 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 23 | He moved in to the new , roomier accommodation . |
| 24 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 25 | He wandered over to the far wall . |
| 26 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 27 | It was a great performance by the sergeant as he strolled up to The Mighty Tharg . |
| 28 | He strolled over to the little Park Police Station among the trees . |
| 29 | As he strolled back to the front window , and peered behind the curtains again , Bodie asked , ‘ And where were you on all these exotic foreign trips ? ’ |
| 30 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |