Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 2 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 3 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 4 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 5 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 6 | anybody then he wants me to the Thursday and I said yeah that 's alright . |
| 7 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 8 | He leads us to the studio , where an interpreter relays another strange question to rapper and part-time Internationalist Wildski . |
| 9 | He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease . |
| 10 | Well he takes them to the post office |
| 11 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 12 | He takes her to the theatre . ’ |
| 13 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 14 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |
| 15 | First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing . |
| 16 | Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared . |
| 17 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 18 | Without asking the woman he throws it to the dog . |
| 19 | Hearing the rest , he slams them to the fire back |
| 20 | He eases me to the floor . |
| 21 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
| 22 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 23 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 24 | That wretched man steals anything that 's of good quality that he can get his hands on — not for himself since they 're usually things that do n't fit him — he sells them to the second-hand clothes stalls on San Lorenzo market . ’ |
| 25 | As he talks , his actions serve to emphasise his words ; he pounds the table ( researchers Ekman and Friesen described this kind of action as an illustrator ) ; he frowns at you ( an affect display ) ; he lifts an eyebrow indicating he requires an answer to his question ( a regulator ) ; finally , he waves you to the door ( an emblem ) . |
| 26 | After the events of chapter 26 he brings us to the time when Isaac is nearing death , and to the point when the blessing of the eldest son must be given . |
| 27 | While he believes in and requires effective administration , he leaves it to the experts , to the people who have a flair for making things happen through systems and computers , and paperwork . |
| 28 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |
| 29 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |