Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may also need to lay on a messenger service to deliver the film to the newspaper building while the photographer goes on to his next assignment . |
| 2 | Having established his basic historical schema , Shepherd goes on to his most original contribution , an analysis of how the two ‘ world-views ’ are ‘ encoded ’ in music , in each case the musical structures and the structures of society and of social consciousness forming ‘ homologies ’ . |
| 3 | He goes down to his estate and does n't stay there a moment , we call in at Luxor and he does n't want to go ashore . |
| 4 | Yeah , but if you remember I goes in to his right now . |
| 5 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |
| 6 | He strips down to his T-shirt and striped boxer shorts . |
| 7 | The striking exception among the super-egos is Professor Charles Handy , a modest and witty Irishman with a spiritual perspective which owes much to his four years as warden of St George 's House in Windsor Castle , a private study and conference centre in the UK concerned with ethics and values in society . |
| 8 | This corresponds exactly to his views on the relationship between linguistics and the study of literature ( Halliday 1967 : 217 — 23 ) . |
| 9 | Nobody lives up to his or her billing . |
| 10 | Sir Formal Trifle is a melancholy , po-faced rhetorician who will never use one short word if he can get his tongue round 50 long ones , while Sir Samuel Hearty hilariously lives up to his name . |
| 11 | International : The Comeback Kid lives up to his name again |
| 12 | Whether he lives up to his promise as a future Tory leader may depend on his success in one of the hair shirt Government posts . |
| 13 | And in the flesh he lives up to his image — at 58 he 's lean and fit , and with his tanned face and hallmark beard , he looks every bit the outdoor adventurer . |
| 14 | This idea grows in the poems leading up to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , finding full expression in 1923 when he looks back to his seminar paper , speculating that ‘ primitive man ’ may have |
| 15 | After 18 months of illness and injury the 21-year-old flyer looks back to his best . |
| 16 | Without warning one falls out of step and drops back to his place In the crowd . |
| 17 | The charity he has closest to his heart is The Spastics Society . |
| 18 | It occurred to him that he had reached the age when a man looks forward to his pleasures less keenly than in youth but is disproportionately aggrieved when his plans are upset . |
| 19 | Limping behind McQueen , he has resurrected Ratso from Midnight Cowboy , and the performance also looks ahead to his mentally handicapped Rain Man character . |
| 20 | Naturally , one looks ahead to his year and we are in little doubt that Nick will provide scope for further celebrations . ’ |
| 21 | The guy holds tight to his pistol but he ca n't make me move my knee . |
| 22 | So Jesus passes on to his disciples the Spirit which has ‘ rested ’ upon him throughout his ministry . |
| 23 | A stream of beer runs across the table and drips on to his trouser leg . |
| 24 | He spins back to his family , snatching the napkin from his collar , his chin jutting righteously from beneath a press-lipped mouth . |
| 25 | This may have strengthened an impression that occurs frequently to his critics , one of relentless eccentricity most manifest in forgetfulness . |
| 26 | He works from dawn to dusk and then , for recreation , goes home to his little cottage in the grounds and tends his own little garden , growing prize specimens for the local show . |
| 27 | In the evening , Iain goes home to his parents on Cuckoo Hill . |
| 28 | It 's quite pathetic , Robyn thought , demeaning , the way she hangs on to his every word , flirts so outrageously with him . |
| 29 | She hangs on to his arm and |
| 30 | He hands over to his successor , Terry Barber , at the beginning of the New Year . |