Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 2 | In fact Arieti 's coverage of the latter is very cursory and he swiftly shifts to a discussion of examples of , to use Pickering 's term , ‘ creative malady ’ ; such as Proust 's asthma and Darwin ‘ s psychosomatic palpitations — examples that are interesting in themselves but largely irrelevant to the creativity/psychosis debate . |
| 3 | So he suddenly came to a halt at the bottom of this stairs as it turned the corner , with the bottom of the wardrobe rammed into his chest , pinning him to the wall . |
| 4 | He finally came to a halt and made a sweeping gesture with his arm designed to encompass the array of canvases on the wall . |
| 5 | My dad he he usually goes to a pub er it is on I think it 's Road but instead of coming this way he goes all the way into town up the other end , you know past the Hotel , he lives at |
| 6 | Coming into a village he brazenly replied to a child 's ‘ Heil Hitler ’ with something entirely different ! |
| 7 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 8 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
| 9 | He also referred to a government proposal to sign a ceasefire on April 15 . |
| 10 | In a glowing vision of The ascent of man ( 1894 ) , Drummond acknowledged the Darwinian struggle for life , but he also referred to a struggle for the life of others . |
| 11 | I do n't think he really comes to a conclusion . |
| 12 | In fact , he even contributed to a magazine explicitly called The Anti-Jacobin Review . |
| 13 | He then referred to a passage from the judgment of Nolan J. in Anderton v. Lythgoe [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 222 , 228 , including the words which I have earlier cited . |
| 14 | He then moved to a succession of short-term jobs until in 1934 he joined some friends in establishing a garage near Basingstoke , specializing in veteran and vintage cars . |
| 15 | Well , the last time he was in , he actually went to a group of people who were determined to make their decision , were determined what their decision was . |
| 16 | Stewart used the ‘ tennis-ball ’ bounce to advantage with some stirring boundary hits , but he too fell to a lifter , topping a pull to one of the two men placed deep behind square . |
| 17 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 18 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 19 | He never says to a stranger , ‘ I 'm deaf . ’ |
| 20 | He subsequently returned to a job in the clothing trade . |