Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the [noun] 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 handed over the keys to Angoulême and Montignac and their walls too were razed to the ground . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He clambered up the bank to the top where the trees ended . |
| 8 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 9 | He walked down the driveway to the main gates of the villa . |
| 10 | He walked down the garden to the privy and noticed that his shoes were wet with dew . |
| 11 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 12 | In others he finds both the impulse to self-sacrifice , and their masculinity , quite complex ( p. 124 ) . |
| 13 | He slipped down the door-post to the ground . |
| 14 | He gave away the rights to his oddball invention to settle a $10 gambling debt . |
| 15 | He resented principally the returns to London after his long holidays in France and cherished periods at his house in Worcestershire . |
| 16 | He ran out the office to er screech about it when we used to park down here . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He held up the glass to her . |
| 19 | He held out the collar to the teacher with one hand and pointed to a picture of Koko with the other . |
| 20 | But when he held out the bread to Charlotte , he could not do it , because he was shaking and crying so much . |
| 21 | He held out the parcel to her . |
| 22 | /In the dress rehearsal when he held out the ring to her she took his pulse . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He held out the receiver to her . |
| 25 | A few minutes after restarting he picked up the autobahn to Salzburg . |
| 26 | He demonstrates instead the extent to which oral and literate forms of language complement each other : ‘ The development of writing takes place within an oral framework of thought and this may continue to dominate the uses of literacy ’ . |