Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 2 | He moved up to a slave . |
| 3 | He moved over to a group of boatmen sitting beneath a large gilt mirror . |
| 4 | In lessons all day , he bounded out to a school meeting immediately afterwards . |
| 5 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 6 | But he came back to a letter from dole chiefs telling him he would not get his income support cash for the 2 1/2 weeks he was away . |
| 7 | In addition , ‘ bounty money ’ was paid from a fund created by Michelins , the tyre manufacturers ; Guynemer , the French ‘ as des as ’ , earned before he died the huge sum of approximately 15,000 francs ( which he handed over to a foundation for wounded airmen ) . |
| 8 | Then he swivelled round to a side-table and started to write his report . |
| 9 | He walked over to a door at the far end of the office and flung it open . |
| 10 | He could also be more bluntly manipulative : on one occasion he walked up to a sailor , with his girlfriend at the bar , saying , as he gave him £20 , ‘ When you 've finished with her , come and see Auntie Minton , she 's got plenty more . ’ |
| 11 | He leapt on to a boulder , waving his weapon above his head . |
| 12 | He went over to a corner cupboard and began bringing out glasses . |
| 13 | Originally my son had it and he went over to a printer . |
| 14 | He went up to a taxi driver , the appellant , and showed him a piece of paper on which an address in Ladbroke Grove was written . |
| 15 | ‘ He went out to a paper in East Africa . |
| 16 | He went off to a shoot . |
| 17 | He went off to a pub , spent half an hour with his mates , and then reported to the casualty department and was dead within a quarter of an hour . |
| 18 | He went off to a club where they wanted him to prove his age at the door ; it never crossed his mind that anyone else was under age . |
| 19 | So he went back to a boy — one of the best , came highly recommended . |
| 20 | Then he felt along to a door frame and followed its outline until he found a light-switch . |
| 21 | I was a little tired and went to my room to rest before dressing for dinner and he sat down to a game of Patience . |