Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Styled ‘ the world 's naughtiest dinosaur ’ , Dilly has many unlovely characteristics which will make him especially appealing to children . |
| 2 | Graham shoved Laidlaw away from him then turned to Sabrina and untied her hands . |
| 3 | One of those oaths bound him never to return to Earth , never to revisit the headquarters of the Inquisition , nor the even more elusive bastion of the Ordo Malleus . |
| 4 | He rather took to Bunny , but it was obvious the stage-manager was a crony of Potter 's and it was advisable , this early on , to leave well alone . |
| 5 | Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality . |
| 6 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 7 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 8 | He eventually moved to Berlin , where he changed his name to Reuter . |
| 9 | He eventually flew to Europe , nervous and not knowing what to expect . |
| 10 | Prodded for details of his own guitar tunings , Cooder reveals that he mostly sticks to DGDGBD , a plain open G , or DADF&sharp ; AD , an open D , although he sometimes changes the open G to an open C , or tunes the second string up to make open D into a D6 tuning . |
| 11 | He rarely alludes to details of play at all . |
| 12 | He began pony racing and as his father actively encouraged him , he naturally progressed to horses and by coincidence landed his first winner on his first ride — Final Assault on the Flat at Naas in March 1983 . |
| 13 | With this ghastly thought in mind , he gently suggested to Sheila that they walk over to a nice patch of grass at the base of the earth bank . |
| 14 | This life history , which extends to 311 pages , deals mainly with the writer 's early life in Poland and his travels before coming to America ; in fact he only goes to America 17 pages from the end , at the age of 27 . |
| 15 | In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on . |
| 16 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 17 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 18 | Perhaps he only aimed to chivvy those civilians in another direction , but was inexpert in the settings of the weapon . |
| 19 | So why is he so opposed to women priests ? |
| 20 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 21 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 22 | At this point the conversation , still in Spanish , seemed to be about politics and the Mexican economy , but when Ward had finished his soup , he suddenly reverted to English . |
| 23 | Why was he constantly jumping to conclusions ? |
| 24 | Rufus had forgotten how often he castigated the press for inaccuracy , how he constantly said to Marigold that you could n't believe a word you read . |
| 25 | His hands trembled and he constantly looked to Louise for advice and support . |
| 26 | He just hoped to God they had followed them . |
| 27 | ‘ He just went to sleep . ’ |
| 28 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 29 | Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried . |
| 30 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |