Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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1 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
2 | Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime . |
3 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
4 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
5 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
6 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
7 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
8 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
9 | He says Come down to the surgery in the morning . |
10 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |
11 | He 's also begun to more fully explore the reasons he keeps going back to the mountains despite the terrible cost they have inflicted . |
12 | He 's gone down to the |
13 | But he 's doped up to the eyeballs and he 's in you know , painkillers . |