Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 2 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 3 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 4 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 5 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 6 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 7 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 8 | Etchings were sent to a printer to make some impressions and someone surreptitiously made copies which he passed on to the defendant who intended to display them in an exhibition which the public could attend on payment of an admission charge . |
| 9 | Keeping to the lawn , he crept silently to the back of the garage . |
| 10 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 11 | " Andrew Stavanger is a fine shipping man — his family owned the fleet before he sold out to the group . |
| 12 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 13 | He goes over to the bedside table and pours a glass of water . |
| 14 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 15 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 16 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 17 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 18 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson could also run the gauntlet of hostility at Hillsborough today when he goes back to the club he left under acrimonious circumstances two seasons ago . |
| 19 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 20 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 21 | He goes across to the pay phone by the gents and makes a credit card call . |
| 22 | He goes out to the kitchen to hide his tears . |
| 23 | Jacob reveals by his first words to Esau that he belongs still to the world of their stiff courtesy , and not yet to that of his brother 's gay abandon . |
| 24 | He harked back to the golden age of a be-blazered world where all God 's children had the basics banged into them , and video nasties were confined to close encounters with beasties in biology lessons . |
| 25 | He rode straight to the races at Budmouth and stayed there all afternoon . |
| 26 | But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before . |
| 27 | He sprinted effortlessly to the rear of the gasping , panting column of men and urged us on from there . |
| 28 | Drawing on a Stoic concept of seeds , which he applied even to the origin of Adam and Eve , he had a sense of natural order that could hardly be considered hostile to further inquiry . |
| 29 | He refers also to the island tradition that woods were destroyed by Viking invaders ( Danes , Norwegians ) . |
| 30 | One of the granules of high dynamization ( he refers mostly to the 30c ) is dissolved in 7–20 tablespoons of water with a little alcohol added . |