Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 2 | It was such wacky financial apportionments as this that — or so he claimed to me — made him a voguish and sought-after practitioner . |
| 3 | Perhaps he regained his old power in the Badlands and rebuilt his domain , or maybe he fell to the sword stroke of an ambitious young Orc Warboss before ever reaching the Iron Rock . |
| 4 | Babur feels fuck them , or maybe he trusts to human tolerance . |
| 5 | Wattling 's father was in the army , and his mother spent half of the year in Singapore or wherever he happened to be stationed , so his state was even more bereft than Tilney 's , whose parents were divorced but whose father was stationed less than fifty miles away . |
| 6 | This became worse and worse and eventually he had to be put out of his misery . |
| 7 | As they worked on in this way , the horse 's alarms became briefer , his paces slower , until eventually he dropped to a walk . |
| 8 | His apartment in New York would be no place to keep an African antelope , and so he came to the nature reserve where I was working . |
| 9 | I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , they played in blue strips and Nicholas could not face the prospect of signing for a team that wore the same colour of shirts as Rangers , and so he returned to Celtic Boys Club to await his calling from Paradise . |
| 11 | Teclis could not refuse such an honour and so he returned to the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 12 | He signed my form a month ago and , and so he said to me |
| 13 | After American troops joined the Allied occupation of Iran , he observed that American policies were independent of both Britain and Russia and so he appealed to President Roosevelt for help . |
| 14 | And so he set to work : despite the usual interruptions , by the end of the year he managed to complete drafts of two acts which he dispatched to Martin Browne . |
| 15 | And so he retired to Darlington . |
| 16 | And so he climbed to the mountains and there , high in the mountains , in an old stone building lived a man with hair down below his waist . |
| 17 | Patrick told me that he was a little worried about the brightness in tone that would inevitably result from a totally maple body and so he suggested to Jim Sullivan that actives might well hold the answer . |
| 18 | They had a drink and went to bed , and afterward he talked to her about deals and projects . |
| 19 | And anyway he came to my party when it was my birthday . ’ |
| 20 | Nigger could only have arrived home that same day and already he seemed to be queering Yanto 's pitch . |
| 21 | And thus he came to the water . |
| 22 | Alone in the Council , Cranmer refused to sign the document altering the succession , until finally he yielded to the plea of his dying godson . |
| 23 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 24 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 25 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 26 | At last even his own wives could not recognize him , and El-ahrairah told Rabscuttle to follow some way behind and off he went to King Darzin 's palace . |
| 27 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 28 | Well Tommy is a brave little chappie , he says , Alright dad , and off he goes to school and all his friends are really sympathetic about this . |
| 29 | Such was his hurry to get into the clubhouse from the 18th green that he was almost bowling people over in his haste and later he admitted to feeling ‘ very down ’ , still trying to get over his first round of 76 when ‘ everything went wrong ’ . |
| 30 | There had been a good many glasses and now he signalled to Midnight who came from the shadows by the far wall , bringing a bottle of port to refill the glass held out . |