Example sentences of "he [vb -s] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her obsession with him extends to the jam which she makes entirely from blackberries picked in his garden . |
| 2 | He crosses to the window , wipes the inside of the pane and gazes out . |
| 3 | Conventional wisdom dictates that the experiences at school , in the transition to work , at work itself and in society generally , tend to imbue the black youth with a jaundiced view of the world ; recoiling from the ‘ pressures ’ , he retreats to a street-corner gang existence , detaching himself from society and cultivating a posture of indifference or even hostility towards the rest of society . |
| 4 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 5 | Buttoning up his fly ( Sutcliffe 's trousers date back to that era , and look it ) he retreats to the washbasins on the other side of the room . |
| 6 | In a moment of weary despair , he turns to a colleague and says , ‘ It 's like pissing into the wind ! ’ |
| 7 | He turns to the writer again : ‘ Abraham Lincoln went on a three-day drunk , and you know what he say when he wake up ? ’ |
| 8 | He turns to the City Pages . |
| 9 | The scenario was that there was this normal , everyday family being filmed in their home at their most private moments and , in one scene , where a young boy is being pressurised into getting married , they all leave the room and he turns to the camera and says something like ‘ I 've got to be careful here . |
| 10 | He turns to the kettle and makes the coffee . |
| 11 | But if the England manager deplored the lack of flair in the squad he took to Sweden then it can only be a matter of time before he turns to the Bart Man . |
| 12 | Then he turns to the policeman : ‘ That 's fine , sergeant . |
| 13 | ( He turns to the TRAGEDIANS . ) |
| 14 | He turns to the others and gives the good news : ‘ We going to need two guards at a time , starting now . |
| 15 | he turns to the warmer |
| 16 | Spenser 's fears about Ireland become most apparent , however , when he turns to the subject of the ‘ Old English ’ there . |
| 17 | I was n't trying to advance a theory about religion in general , says Freud , but now I am , and in Future of an Illusion , he turns to the question of religion in general , not just er , teutonic religion , as in Totem and Taboo , but religion in general . |
| 18 | He contributes to the pension fund and has taken out life insurance . |
| 19 | He points to a single red blossom that quivers on a nearly invisible thread attached to a garland of synthetic butterflies and rhinestone-dotted flowers — a bizarre piece of headgear so tacky it could only have been custom-made . |
| 20 | He points to a distant waterfall like a zag of lightning on the hillside . |
| 21 | He points to a spot on the ceiling . |
| 22 | He points to a small cut on p.1 in the 1693 quarto , removing a reference to Hermia , Demetrius and Lysander , who — with 1692'5 Act 1 scene 1 disposed of — have yet to appear on stage . |
| 23 | He points to a spot in the grass about ten yards away . |
| 24 | Embracing the ambiguous nature of that question with a dirty grin , he points to a big wheel . |
| 25 | He points to an inevitable parallel here between biological evolution and cognitive development in the life of an individual . |
| 26 | If he points to the empty box then it is probably fair to regard this as deliberate misinforming , as the ‘ implanting ’ of a false belief in another 's mind . |
| 27 | He points to the fact that the Atlantic can now be crossed in three and a half hours as indisputable evidence that the pace has hotted up , but in his view , the next generation will assimilate such changes . |
| 28 | He points to the three British works in the recording project to demonstrate what variety it has to offer — the ‘ hard black-and-white ’ sound of the Birtwistle , the comparitively florid ‘ flute or clarinet-like writing ’ in the Maxwell Davies Concerto , the ‘ very expansive ’ trumpet part in the Blake Watkins , which is a ‘ wonderfully lyrical work without being sweet or silly in any way . ’ |
| 29 | He points to the benefit of having the two major Manchester rail stations linked for the first time by the Manchester Metro , and explains how LRT systems , connecting outlying communities to the mainline service , can open up new passenger markets . |
| 30 | Then he points to the south , to Africa and Asia . |