Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 . |
| 2 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 3 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 4 | He goes over to the bedside table and pours a glass of water . |
| 5 | He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper . |
| 6 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 7 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 8 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 9 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson could also run the gauntlet of hostility at Hillsborough today when he goes back to the club he left under acrimonious circumstances two seasons ago . |
| 10 | He goes across to the pay phone by the gents and makes a credit card call . |
| 11 | He goes out to the kitchen to hide his tears . |
| 12 | Jacob reveals by his first words to Esau that he belongs still to the world of their stiff courtesy , and not yet to that of his brother 's gay abandon . |
| 13 | He refers also to the island tradition that woods were destroyed by Viking invaders ( Danes , Norwegians ) . |
| 14 | Without adducing any real evidence ( he refers sometimes to the dialogue given to women characters in novels or plays by men ) , Jespersen tells us women speak more softly and politely than men , have smaller and less varied vocabularies , use diminutives like teeny weeny , construct their sentences ‘ loosely , and leave them unfinished , all the while jumping from topic to topic . |
| 15 | He looks forward to the day when home computers are so widespread that the price for software will drop by 75 per cent . |
| 16 | The only ones I 'll let go are Carly and Bill , they 've got ta catch a plane , er train , and Justin 's got to come back before he heads back to the hotel . |
| 17 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 18 | He shuffles back to the sofa and drops heavily into his seat . |
| 19 | He hangs on to the hope that he will work with Almodóvar again , but Hollywood and a coterie of internationally-acclaimed directors are now pounding on the door . |
| 20 | Accordingly , as he leads up to the day of Pentecost , Luke is at greatest pains to maintain that the Spirit , who equipped Jesus for his mission , equips the disciples to carry it on . |
| 21 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |
| 22 | He slouches up to the table . |
| 23 | So he stays out to the centre . |
| 24 | Pyjamas seems afraid of them : he stays close to the wall . |
| 25 | Robin Coverdale is the man beside the fast lane and as a race marshal , he gets closer to the action than most . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's a gentleman waiting to see you , ’ says the porter , when he gets back to the hotel . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew it was possible ! ’ he calls back to the porter . |
| 28 | Having accounted for how action types might acquire conventional but unstructured meanings , he advances straightaway to a discussion of how one might come into an alien community and find evidence that their linguistic interactions are structured ( syntactically and semantically ) . |
| 29 | He swans off to the room whilst I wrestle with yards of umbilical elastic intestine , and hard cyst-like sacs which remain as elusive as end snippets of soap . |
| 30 | For example a salesman may operate with his own briefcase computer unit which he plugs in to the telephone system when he wants to obtain or transfer information . |