Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 3 | He goes over to the bedside table and pours a glass of water . |
| 4 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 5 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 6 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He goes out to the kitchen to hide his tears . |
| 9 | He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe , and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 12 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 13 | He shuffles back to the sofa and drops heavily into his seat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He slouches up to the table . |
| 18 | So he stays out to the centre . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's a gentleman waiting to see you , ’ says the porter , when he gets back to the hotel . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew it was possible ! ’ he calls back to the porter . |
| 21 | He leaps in , he swims , he strides out to the waves , |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This week he 's at Queens Club with Sky for the Stella Artois tournament , then he moves on to the Manchester Open on June 14 . |
| 25 | He steps on to the bathroom scales . |
| 26 | He pops down to the shop every now and then to make sure things are ticking over . ’ |
| 27 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |
| 28 | He descends down to the people , and they form a ring around him . |
| 29 | When he comes back to the room at first everything looks the same . |