Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps he only aimed to chivvy those civilians in another direction , but was inexpert in the settings of the weapon . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ He just went to sleep . ’ |
| 11 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 12 | When he finally returned to power , he was careful not to preside over the new Gaullist party , the UNR , in the same direct way that he had led the RPF . |
| 13 | He finally went to bed , cursing himself for his own sentimentality , certain the feeling was due to tiredness and jet-lag , no more . |
| 14 | He soon set to work making drawings of the tiny fellow , and of the cradle . |
| 15 | Or is he not going to school this morning ? |
| 16 | And I do n't think he ever went to problem you know , a pub fight at all . |
| 17 | And , should he ever graduate to captaincy , the most searching trial — of leading men who do not necessarily view the world as he does — is still perhaps ahead . |
| 18 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 19 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 20 | So he still goes to playgroup . |
| 21 | Even with a mileage clock that stopped at about 190,000 miles , he still runs to perfection , never gets clamped or a parking ticket , and blends beautifully into the city background . |
| 22 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 23 | He always goes to work , pays his mortgage and supports his family and his habit . |
| 24 | ‘ He always goes to sleep when he 's enjoying something . |
| 25 | But Francie had smuggled a tiny transistor radio into the house and on this he furtively listened to Radio Eireann sometimes , when there was music . |
| 26 | Basil would get very excited at finding tadpoles and caddis worms in the Hampstead ponds but though he once took to fishing in a small stream when we were on holiday , and actually caught a small fish , which Marion cooked for his tea , he was quite unable to eat it , being stricken with remorse at its demise . |
| 27 | When he is asked what he will do after his own group splits , he usually resorts to humour . |
| 28 | He also returned to television , with two ITV plays , the first of which was The Move After Checkmate . |
| 29 | He also called to mind the noble Earl 's father , Lord Kilmarnock , beheaded in London for his part in the '45 ; the son who hosted Boswell and Johnson broke with the family 's rebellious tradition and sided with the King and London . |
| 30 | He also helped to hand out Bibles . |