Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 2 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 3 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 4 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 5 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 6 | Etchings were sent to a printer to make some impressions and someone surreptitiously made copies which he passed on to the defendant who intended to display them in an exhibition which the public could attend on payment of an admission charge . |
| 7 | Keeping to the lawn , he crept silently to the back of the garage . |
| 8 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 9 | " Andrew Stavanger is a fine shipping man — his family owned the fleet before he sold out to the group . |
| 10 | He harked back to the golden age of a be-blazered world where all God 's children had the basics banged into them , and video nasties were confined to close encounters with beasties in biology lessons . |
| 11 | He rode straight to the races at Budmouth and stayed there all afternoon . |
| 12 | But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before . |
| 13 | He sprinted effortlessly to the rear of the gasping , panting column of men and urged us on from there . |
| 14 | Drawing on a Stoic concept of seeds , which he applied even to the origin of Adam and Eve , he had a sense of natural order that could hardly be considered hostile to further inquiry . |
| 15 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 16 | He got through to the base camp to find out when the chap was coming to fix it . |
| 17 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 18 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 19 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 20 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 21 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 22 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 23 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
| 24 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 25 | ‘ This is very nice , ’ she said , when he got back to the table . |
| 26 | There would be punishment waiting for him when he got back to the house . |
| 27 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 28 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 29 | When he got back to the hotel Gentle 's first instinct was to call Jude . |
| 30 | The painting in four contrary modes was there to greet Gentle when he got back to the studio . |