Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 . |
| 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 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 — |
| 8 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 9 | He passed on to an empty table . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 12 | " Andrew Stavanger is a fine shipping man — his family owned the fleet before he sold out to the group . |
| 13 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 14 | He goes over to the bedside table and pours a glass of water . |
| 15 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 16 | He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper . |
| 17 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 18 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 19 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 20 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 23 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 24 | He goes out to the kitchen to hide his tears . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe , and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence . |
| 27 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 28 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 29 | He got through to the base camp to find out when the chap was coming to fix it . |
| 30 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |