Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on to speak of the hardships he endured , the thirst , the hard work the opposition , the homelessness , the abuse , and concludes ‘ we have become , and still are , the refuse of the world , the offscourings of everything ( 1 Cor. 4:8–13 ) . |
| 2 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 3 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 4 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 5 | Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out . |
| 6 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 7 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 8 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 9 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 10 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 11 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 12 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 13 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 14 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 15 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |
| 16 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 17 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 18 | On a sixth-century BC vessel made in Etruria , the ketos has a large eye and vicious curved teeth against which the hero holds a sickle ; while in an early Attic scene , he appears about to cut off the monster 's tongue . |
| 19 | ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’ |
| 20 | But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation : |
| 21 | He went on to reflect on the foundation of new branches . |
| 22 | He went on to work as a designer and translator for an Austrian publisher , where the manager , Otto Preminger ( later a celebrated film director ) introduced him to Max Reinhardt . |
| 23 | He went on to work in a hospital ship in the Mediterranean — a year which he later described as being one of the most enjoyable of his life . |
| 24 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |
| 25 | In the Chairman 's Address by the Rev. Arnold Thomas quoted above he went on to expand on a definition of the Nonconformist Conscience and in so doing showed how social attitudes and religious arguments had become fused . |
| 26 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 27 | He went back to act as a liaison with WIN and as a spy . |
| 28 | Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side . |
| 29 | He leaned over to look into the pool and , losing his balance , fell into the deep water . |
| 30 | He leaned back to tap on the glass partition and then slid it open . |