Example sentences of "[adv prt] to his [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped back down to his cabin while she changed . |
| 2 | Gabriel wrapped the white cloak tighter around him , and pulled his curly hair as far down to his shoulders as he could . |
| 3 | Now it seemed as if his arms tapered all the way down to his fingertips where they lay lightly on the wheel of the Audi . |
| 4 | Why do you think I brought you down to his place if it was n't so that I could stake a claim on your patience — make you listen to what I have to confess because there was no way you could run away from me — flag down a taxi , catch a bus and head for the airport ? ’ |
| 5 | What the admiring spectators did n't see was Zarei sitting in the first aid room and insisting those helping him look away as he took off his socks , ‘ because I do n't want to frighten you ’ , and later on slipping a tape of Irish Folk music in to his Walkman as he went back on to the track and muttering quietly to himself , ‘ that will help me stop thinking of the pain ’ . |
| 6 | Successive personnel managers had always caved in to his demands as they knew full well that Clasper would win a stand-up fight . |
| 7 | He had given Gina a column to take in to his paper while he was away . |
| 8 | A large gust of wind blew a cloud of dust in to his face and he put his back into the wind so that he could wipe the rest of the tears from his cheeks . |
| 9 | Essex paceman Neil Foster , hotly tipped for an England recall this summer , lived up to his nickname when he kicked two stumps out of the ground just before tea . |
| 10 | Process engineer Lawrence Wan lived up to his name when he achieved a hole-in-one on the Shetland Golf Club course . |
| 11 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 12 | His hand would come up to his head and he would wipe back his hair in a little , unconscious gesture of annoyance . |
| 13 | And the star of the show , with his new-look short hair , lived up to his word when he promised fans a night to remember . |
| 14 | He was going to face up to his mother when he got home and have it out . |
| 15 | He asked me to hold the coffee up to his lips and I was gone . |
| 16 | TOUGH guy Sylvester Stallone , left , lived up to his image when he helped rescue girlfriend Jennifer Flavin from a mountain . |
| 17 | I went up to his house when he had it . |
| 18 | He skirted a small lake and walked straight into a patch of quicksand He was up to his shins before he realised what had happened . |
| 19 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 20 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 21 | Every item is individually made — as our photographer found out to his cost when he moved the sack of potatoes sending us scrabbling to retrieve them ! |
| 22 | My master went back to his friends and we took the boat out to sea . |
| 23 | got back to his mark and we 're going to have three slips , Lewis gone to join the slips , so it 's er three slips and the gully , as waits for this one , packing were the up comes Lawrence now past Dickie Bird , bowls to him , well pitched up and he played a rather streaky stroke really , and he turns it away down to square Tufnell is down there , fields the ball , throws back quite nicely , he fielded very well , let's say that and one run goes on the total , er so that at the moment three hundred and four runs are needed and it 's about three point nine seven the required rate . |
| 24 | The man 's tongue came back to his lip and he made a series of little whispered sounds , huss , huss , huss ; his laugh . |
| 25 | Let him take a favourable tale back to his abbot when he leaves us tomorrow . |
| 26 | ‘ … the guy called me the minute he got back to his office and he said : ‘ Mo do you agree with me that judge was as wet as hell ? ’ and I said : ‘ If you so say but he was sure swimming in the right pool . ’ |
| 27 | and he went straight back to his study and I thought I 'd go and see him because my parents had gone |
| 28 | He got himself back to his flat and he turned the lights on in every room . |
| 29 | Ellis said he did not know if the girl took clients back to his flat and he would have ‘ gone up the wall ’ if she did . |
| 30 | The dangerous journey in store for Sard is not in fact in pursuit of the ideal woman , but a prosaic attempt to get back to his ship before it sails , an attempt frustrated by the theft of his bicycle and by wanderings that involve him with a silver-train and a period in gaol , the traverse of an appalling desert and a rock-strewn mountain . |