Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 2 | Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 . |
| 3 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 4 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 7 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 8 | Etchings were sent to a printer to make some impressions and someone surreptitiously made copies which he passed on to the defendant who intended to display them in an exhibition which the public could attend on payment of an admission charge . |
| 9 | Keeping to the lawn , he crept silently to the back of the garage . |
| 10 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 11 | " Andrew Stavanger is a fine shipping man — his family owned the fleet before he sold out to the group . |
| 12 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 13 | He goes over to the bedside table and pours a glass of water . |
| 14 | He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper . |
| 15 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 16 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 17 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He goes across to the pay phone by the gents and makes a credit card call . |
| 20 | He goes out to the kitchen to hide his tears . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before . |
| 23 | He sprinted effortlessly to the rear of the gasping , panting column of men and urged us on from there . |
| 24 | Drawing on a Stoic concept of seeds , which he applied even to the origin of Adam and Eve , he had a sense of natural order that could hardly be considered hostile to further inquiry . |
| 25 | He refers also to the island tradition that woods were destroyed by Viking invaders ( Danes , Norwegians ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 28 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 29 | He got through to the base camp to find out when the chap was coming to fix it . |
| 30 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |