Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 2 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 3 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 4 | He harked back to the golden age of a be-blazered world where all God 's children had the basics banged into them , and video nasties were confined to close encounters with beasties in biology lessons . |
| 5 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 6 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 7 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 8 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 9 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 10 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 11 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 12 | He moved in to the new , roomier accommodation . |
| 13 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 14 | He wandered over to the far wall . |
| 15 | It was a great performance by the sergeant as he strolled up to The Mighty Tharg . |
| 16 | He strolled over to the little Park Police Station among the trees . |
| 17 | As he strolled back to the front window , and peered behind the curtains again , Bodie asked , ‘ And where were you on all these exotic foreign trips ? ’ |
| 18 | Finally about quarter to eight he shoots through to the other room and finds Dick and Joy Hardy there , they were supposed to be picking Gwen up and bringing her round . |
| 19 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
| 20 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 21 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 22 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 23 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 24 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 25 | He woke up to the nauseating smell of burning skin and a roaring sound . |
| 26 | He booked in to the Inter-Continental Hotel , only a few minutes ' walk from the fairground . |
| 27 | He went through to the corridor , and as the train began to move he sauntered along to the first-class coach . |
| 28 | Lord Romsey , of Hampshire , found himself issued with a £40 fixed penalty and a ‘ severe ticking-off ’ after he drove on to the hard shoulder to join the M271 near Southampton . |
| 29 | Finally he drove back to the main road . |
| 30 | This seemed reasonable , so reluctantly Sophie got in his car and sat in silence as he drove out to the main road . |