Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 2 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 3 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 4 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
| 5 | ‘ She always used to leave little warning signs when she was younger , ’ he said as he came back to the horses . |
| 6 | Forgetting his altered status here , he drove around to the stables and , as he had always done before , saw to his own horses before entering the house via the kitchen premises . |
| 7 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |
| 8 | He swivelled round to the Environments Officer . |
| 9 | From there he walked over to the lifts with her . |
| 10 | Holding his shoes , he stepped on to the stones and crossed the river carefully . |
| 11 | He glanced back to the doors again in terror . |
| 12 | ‘ No , Joe Steer was with me until we got to the corner of Bal Lane , then he cut through to the terraces . ’ |
| 13 | He leaps in , he swims , he strides out to the waves , |
| 14 | Fumbling with a collection of tapes which were jumbled around the gear lever , he called out to the boys behind to ask where they had put a tape of a classic poem set to music . |
| 15 | Fixing me with an indignant eye , he scuttled off to the peonies . |
| 16 | Lying on his uncomfortably narrow bed , he thought back to the events which had brought about his present state . |
| 17 | He eased through to the quarter-finals with a 7-6 , 7-2 , 7-2 win over his Scottish international colleague , David Gourlay . |
| 18 | Then , partnered by Brian Storr ( Staffordshire ) , he went through to the doubles final , to be outdone again by Davis and his partner Ahlers , both from the USA . |
| 19 | He went back to the armchairs . |
| 20 | we 've had it , went , he went back to the doctors today and she said it could take up to six to eight weeks to get out your system . |
| 21 | After that he went back to the offices to receive details of his next step . |
| 22 | So I think he went down to the stews and bawdy houses along the river . |
| 23 | He went down to the docks to buy a lorryload of timber going cheaply , had the building sandblasted and refitted , and insisted on some adjustment of the merchandise to suit the customer profile . |
| 24 | He looked up to the windows of Rose 's flat . |
| 25 | ‘ He wrote back to the children with his recipe , saying it was a big favourite with his family . |
| 26 | His legs were trembling as he ran back to the police car to radio for immediate medical help . |
| 27 | He swept up to the gates of the converted Flax Wharf warehouse and sounded the horn . |
| 28 | He pointed out to the magistrates that the people of the parish had previously been law-abiding , that riotous demonstrations and the destruction of property were rare , and even now were believed by many of the farmers and traders ( and the poor themselves ) to have been the work of gypsies . |