Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 2 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 3 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 4 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 5 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 6 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 7 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 8 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 9 | When the crackle of the flames , the creak of the floorboard , and the weight of their bodies returned , he lowered her to the carpet before the fire and sat himself beside her , leaning so that his face was only inches above hers . |
| 10 | With a groan he lowered her to the quilt and brought his head down . |
| 11 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |
| 12 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 13 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 14 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 15 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 16 | He re-directed it to the sales department and made a mental note to have a word with the post room ; it was about time that they got their act together . |
| 17 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 18 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 19 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 20 | The regular vet — a friend of mine — has gone to live in Australia and he recommended me to the zoo as his replacement . |
| 21 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 22 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 23 | Zeno ran a coin across his knuckles , this way and that , a tiny acrobat , then flipped it ; as it fell he clapped it to the back of his hand . |
| 24 | The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal . |
| 25 | He led her to the door and opened it for her . |
| 26 | He led her to the dining room where the table shone with the gleam of heavy silver , the intricate curves of candelabra . |
| 27 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 28 | Quickly he led her to the saddle , pushing her face down onto its hard smooth surface , his hands caressing her intimately all the while , keeping her mind dark , her senses inflamed . |
| 29 | He led her to the car , helped her in and started the engine . |
| 30 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |