Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 2 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 3 | He opened up the Museum to scholars and architectural historians by writing many articles on Soane and his collections for the architectural press in the 1920s and also embarked on a series of publications about Soane : The Works of Sir John Soane ( 1924 ) , an edition of Soane 's Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture ( 1929 ) and The Portrait of Sir John Soane ( 1927 ) , as well as a number of pamphlets . |
| 4 | And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in . |
| 5 | Turning up the collar of his Burberry against the chill morning air , he climbed up the slope to the rim of the hollow and stood looking down at the car . |
| 6 | He clambered up the bank to the top where the trees ended . |
| 7 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 8 | He walked down the driveway to the main gates of the villa . |
| 9 | He walked down the garden to the privy and noticed that his shoes were wet with dew . |
| 10 | He slipped down the door-post to the ground . |
| 11 | He ran out the office to er screech about it when we used to park down here . |
| 12 | Then , remembering it was five minutes past tot time , he ran down the ladder to the well deck , and away to the spare-crew mess . |
| 13 | He held up the glass to her . |
| 14 | He held out the collar to the teacher with one hand and pointed to a picture of Koko with the other . |
| 15 | But when he held out the bread to Charlotte , he could not do it , because he was shaking and crying so much . |
| 16 | He held out the parcel to her . |
| 17 | /In the dress rehearsal when he held out the ring to her she took his pulse . |
| 18 | He held out the salver to Galvone who took the sheet , unfolded it , read the few words on the paper and handed it to Hauser . |
| 19 | He held out the receiver to her . |
| 20 | A few minutes after restarting he picked up the autobahn to Salzburg . |