Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina had wanted him sent away to school . |
| 2 | ‘ Quite a looker , ’ he whispered back to Petion . |
| 3 | Despite the crossbow bolt in his thigh , Eudo had survived the rack , the boot and the strappado : every limb was broken but he clung tenaciously to life . |
| 4 | He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window . |
| 5 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 6 | After the obligatory preamble on the weather he got down to business . |
| 7 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 8 | And he said he was alright over you know , that period and he said he got back to office , then two hours later he said he was in , in such great pain ! |
| 9 | He gazed out to sea and the horizon as he did it , offering no more yet giving so much away . |
| 10 | He gazed out to sea . |
| 11 | On the outside of the rampart there was an astonishing collection of white skeletons which he tried not to look at but which rattled unpleasantly as the jackals took to their heels at his approach . |
| 12 | so he tried not to look but he 's , you know |
| 13 | Burying his face into the warm living darkness of Wolf 's fur , he tried desperately to wall away the sickening pulse . |
| 14 | The stimulus of the Commander 's benzedrine tablets was wearing off as he swam out to sea after three hours ' creeping and sliding around the beach , and now , his senses dulled by a chilling exhaustion , he felt the first pangs of doubt : would Roger Courtney see the flickering torch among the waves before an enemy patrol boat caught sight of it ? |
| 15 | He moved on to construction , the stock markets and property development . |
| 16 | During his early teens he moved on to rugby . |
| 17 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 18 | After a successful academic career he moved back to industry . |
| 19 | He referred disparagingly to Bunny 's demob suit . |
| 20 | He stopped neither to rest or eat until it was almost dark . |
| 21 | He strolled up to No 10 , the door opened but Lord Hesketh kept going . |
| 22 | When he came down to Hillmarden that Friday night he did not , mercifully , refer to her mid-week sortie . |
| 23 | WHEN HE CAME down to breakfast next morning Wycliffe found the hall full of suitcases ; the conference was breaking up . |
| 24 | It was time he came down to earth with a bump , she thought , literally . |
| 25 | And so he came back to life . |
| 26 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 27 | When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them . |
| 28 | Anyhow he came back to farming after leaving the Army . |
| 29 | Mellor , it will be recalled , was the unfortunate minister charged with turning the pig 's ear of Margaret Thatcher 's commercial broadcast policy into a silk purse — a miracle he came close to performing . |
| 30 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |