Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | This became worse and worse and eventually he had to be put out of his misery . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Teclis could not refuse such an honour and so he returned to the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 10 | He signed my form a month ago and , and so he said to me |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And so he retired to Darlington . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They had a drink and went to bed , and afterward he talked to her about deals and projects . |
| 17 | And anyway he came to my party when it was my birthday . ’ |
| 18 | Nigger could only have arrived home that same day and already he seemed to be queering Yanto 's pitch . |
| 19 | And thus he came to the water . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | First the man insulted her , and now he seemed to be taking a perverse delight in taunting her . |
| 24 | And now he began to be more devout than ever in his prayers , more ardent in divine contemplations , more frequent in his vigils , more energetic in exhortations and in works worthy of imitation and more frequent in preaching ; thus becoming a pattern in word and deed of a holy life to all , Rich in the bowels of compassion , he relieved everyone who sought his assistance . |
| 25 | He was used to walking all over the city , as if searching , as if dedicated to the act of searching , every single day ; and now he came to The Bar every single night , and did his searching there . |
| 26 | Precautions will not conquer empires , they will not build great cities , they will not transmute dreams into gold or carry men across wide oceans , and precautions will not , emphatically not , win fair ladies , ’ and here he turned to Ellen and lasciviously dropped his gaze to her long bare legs . |
| 27 | Of the original concept , only weatherman Francis Wilson survives and even he seemed to be making conscious efforts not to call clouds ‘ white , fluffy bits ’ , as has been his trick . |
| 28 | And then he came to Europe and , and really , let it all go . |
| 29 | For a second his eyes met hers and then he came to her quickly , his body covering her own , pressing her down into the softness of the bed , his skin against hers an almost unbearable pleasure . |
| 30 | Yes oh I ee I , I 'm led to understand that he , he built that church and I 'm led to understand that at the same time he started , he came as a curate to St Matthew 's and then he came to Street into a house and he had a little , he started a little church down there in a private house and then he built the church . |