Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] to the " 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 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 3 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 — |
| 6 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 9 | " Andrew Stavanger is a fine shipping man — his family owned the fleet before he sold out to the group . |
| 10 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 11 | He goes over to the bedside table and pours a glass of water . |
| 12 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 13 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 14 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 15 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 18 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 19 | He goes out to the kitchen to hide his tears . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe , and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence . |
| 22 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 23 | He got through to the base camp to find out when the chap was coming to fix it . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 26 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 27 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 28 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 29 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
| 30 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |