Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm an Army officer and all I want to do is persuade him to go back to the Army . ’ |
2 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
3 | To get him to go out to the Lock with her , Marie had told Simon all sorts of lies . |
4 | I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair . |
5 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
6 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
7 | He was very normal , you could see him walking down to the bank Monday to Friday , but he 's got this completely eccentric side to him . ’ |
8 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
9 | Before the Collector continued about his business , Dr McNab asked him to come over to the window for a moment . |
10 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
11 | The queasiness which had first compelled him to come back to the house that evening clawed him again , and kept him in the chair under her fond glances and bids to intimacy . |
12 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
13 | The nuptial pads on a male frog 's feet enable him to grip on to the females tightly when mating . |
14 | ‘ Now I can see him going on to the next one , the way he is playing . |
15 | ‘ I do n't see him going back to the Council , ’ Dann said banteringly . |
16 | After a short while she saw him emerge on to the quayside , a tall , lean man with the kind of rangy , loose-limbed walk which drew admiring glances from any female within range . |
17 | He had behaved disgracefully on Thursday and I was going to make him face up to the fact on Friday . |
18 | As she thrashed his bare arse with scorching strokes , she watched him ejaculate on to the floor . |
19 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
20 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
21 | She watched him go over to the coffee-machine hissing on a cabinet near one of the windows , saw him deftly take cups and saucers from a cupboard . |
22 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
23 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
24 | I saw him go up to the house- ’ |
25 | You say you saw him go up to the house and take something ? |
26 | Let him go back to the corner thinking , ‘ I 'm working with the boss . ’ ’ |
27 | well there is that would n't taken him went off to the ch |
28 | At lunchtime Desmond had n't been able to place his usual bets because she 'd sent him haring back to the digs to see if an urgent letter had arrived . |
29 | They had fallen , both of them , he could picture it exactly in his mind , and he could remember Kairallah , calling to him to get back to the car . |
30 | Owen had him taken back to the underground room . |