Example sentences of "he [vb -s] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crosses to the window , wipes the inside of the pane and gazes out . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He turns to the writer again : ‘ Abraham Lincoln went on a three-day drunk , and you know what he say when he wake up ? ’ |
| 4 | He turns to the City Pages . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He turns to the kettle and makes the coffee . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then he turns to the policeman : ‘ That 's fine , sergeant . |
| 9 | ( He turns to the TRAGEDIANS . ) |
| 10 | He turns to the others and gives the good news : ‘ We going to need two guards at a time , starting now . |
| 11 | he turns to the warmer |
| 12 | Spenser 's fears about Ireland become most apparent , however , when he turns to the subject of the ‘ Old English ’ there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He contributes to the pension fund and has taken out life insurance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then he points to the south , to Africa and Asia . |
| 20 | Like other writers he points to the way in which political direction colours practice , and recognizes too that there may be conflicts within research itself , as there are amongst practitioners . |
| 21 | As for application portability between the CMOS and RISC versions , he points to the Integrated Language Environment , ILE , that was released as part of OS/400 version 2 release 3 . |
| 22 | Firstly , he points to the recommendations contained in the Wolfenden Report and argues that if society were not able to pronounce homosexuality morally wrong , then there would be no basis for a law which aims to protect youth from ‘ corruption ’ , or for punishing men who live off the earnings of a homosexual prostitute . |
| 23 | He points to the irrationality of this assumption and makes the seemingly rather obvious point that ‘ Torture … is an infallible means for absolving robust scoundrels and for condemning innocent persons who happen to be weak ’ ( p. 32 ) . |
| 24 | Rather he points to the theoretical paradox involved , namely that the human sciences ' very emphasis on historicity as a mode of being was equally applicable to themselves as forms of knowledge , and inevitably destroyed any attempt to formulate universal laws comparable to those of the natural sciences . |
| 25 | He point to the right-hand side of the room , and tells the men in the class to move that way ; then he points to the left with his other hand and tells the women to stand by the wall . |
| 26 | He points to the rewards of being a student — leisure , freedom and the opportunity for self-development . |
| 27 | He points to the growth of unionism among junior doctors as evidence of their need to move beyond professionalism as a market strategy for protecting their interests . |
| 28 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 29 | In the educational sphere , for example , he points to the uniformity of local education authorities in adopting a tripartite system of secondary education following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 30 | He points to the puddle of dark at my feet , giggling , raising an eyebrow to my friends for support . |