Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 2 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 3 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 4 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 5 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 6 | He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester . |
| 7 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 8 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 9 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 10 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 11 | He drove her to the very edge of ecstasy and then , as the quivering tide of sensation gathered momentum , he tipped her over and down into the fiery vortex . |
| 12 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 13 | He raised it to the blushing Thérèse . |
| 14 | He tied it to the hanging bell rope . |
| 15 | They stepped off the kerb and Nicolo slipped his arm around Caroline 's waist as he guided her to the other side of the street . |
| 16 | He took her to the Regal Arms Hotel . |
| 17 | After threatening Miss Slater with a knife , he took her to the converted pub in Newark , Nottinghamshire , he used as a workshop for his tool repair business . |
| 18 | He took her to the deserted camp laundry : a large hut with a great copper the size of a steam-engine , a line of deep sinks , and rows of drying lines . |
| 19 | After dinner he took us to the Royal College of Art , where he seemed proud to be an honorary member of the faculty club and students ' union . |
| 20 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 21 | He resigned himself to the single thought , that he would not see her again . |
| 22 | He resigned himself to the inevitable , and grudgingly muttered , ‘ Proceed with the prosecution . ’ |
| 23 | Well , he gave it to the dirty little bugger . |
| 24 | He introduced me to the local shoemender , he showed me where the gypsies sometimes camped . |
| 25 | Our greetings over , he introduced me to the hovering writers . |
| 26 | The following day he introduced himself to the Old Trafford crowd by appearing in playing gear and juggling with the ball before United 's game against the champions Arsenal . |
| 27 | He dragged himself to the faceless body . |
| 28 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 29 | He motioned her to the small round table she had n't seen being laid out and urged her to drink and eat . |
| 30 | Although born in the very purple of Whiggery , he displayed independence of judgement , and , in spite of his personal admiration for W. E. Gladstone ( tempered by a certain irreverence ) , he attached himself to the radical section of the Liberal Party . |