Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye ; well ’ — he got on to his feet now — ‘ it takes somebody to expose it . |
| 3 | He got on to his knees , then rose in a crouch and hit Pascoe full on the chest with a tight fist . |
| 4 | Pascoe got on to his knees like a man at prayer , and hauled Singer towards him by his hair , punching twice , hard , as he pulled the man in . |
| 5 | And Marie , oblivious of her cold , wet jacket , clung on to his arm as they walked along . |
| 6 | The ‘ foolish years ’ as a Battersea Grammar school boy confirmed certain attitudes that Edward Thomas never abandoned and that he passed on to his children . |
| 7 | Knowledge concerning that enlightenment was what he passed on to his disciples , and this — the positive content of the Four Noble Truths and the teaching of the Middle Way — is what has made Buddhism live down the ages and still today . |
| 8 | Then Julius got slowly to his feet , looking very much older than his thirty-six years . |
| 9 | With a disbelieving smile , he released her and got slowly to his feet . |
| 10 | Maxim got slowly to his feet his thoughtfull face sending a shiver through George , because that look usually meant he might be going to do something . |
| 11 | Her voice was tentative , shaken , and he got slowly to his feet , searching her face . |
| 12 | Bemused , a little frightened , he got slowly to his feet and looked around him . |
| 13 | She tore her mouth away , averting her burning face as Penry got unhurriedly to his feet . |
| 14 | Kynaston nodded and got down to his familiar routine . |
| 15 | So , with her last remaining strength , she pushed it through the bars , and it fluttered down to his feet . ’ |
| 16 | She does not pretend that Ben 's ordeal resulted directly from the ban , but she believes it contributed to the chain of events which led inexorably to his present stay in south-east London 's Bethlem Hospital . |
| 17 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 18 | When the Daily Telegraph thundered on to his front doormat , he could get up and do the crossword over the pot of tea that served as his breakfast . |
| 19 | When finally they would carry him no more , he ducked into a doorway and sank on to his bottom , breathing heavily . |
| 20 | He moved on to his own fight and talked about Bowe . |
| 21 | Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script . |
| 22 | Sometimes these were ad hominem arrangements-that in Kefe was dissolved after a year and that in Kutahya when the holder moved on to his next post , though Kutahya was recreated a mevleviyet in 989/1581 — but many of them had become permanent by the end of the century . |
| 23 | Turner , who was helping old mate Barry Fry at the time , moved on to his present job . |
| 24 | At first Mike worked as Tom 's assistant but he soon moved on to his own assignments . |
| 25 | Then Travis moved on to his back , drawing her with him to rest her head in the angle of his shoulder . |
| 26 | She fastened on to his meaning . |
| 27 | Halfway through the next carol , the old boy rose slowly to his feet and with the help of his stick , made his way to the lectern . |
| 28 | Grimwood rose slowly to his feet , smiling his oily smile , extending a hand . |
| 29 | Aubrey rose slowly to his feet . |
| 30 | The doctor rose slowly to his feet . |