Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on .
2 In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End .
3 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 .
4 Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation .
5 The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million .
6 He led her to the far room where she had found Leo .
7 He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper .
8 To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts .
9 He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester .
10 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 .
11 Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire .
12 He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year .
13 Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion .
14 Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Silently he handed them to the two sisters .
18 He returned it to the failed initiate without comment .
19 He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease .
20 He raised it to the blushing Thérèse .
21 He tied it to the hanging bell rope .
22 Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared .
23 He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level .
24 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 .
25 He took her to the Regal Arms Hotel .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well .
29 They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household .
30 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 .
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