Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] his [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 2 | Still munching cheese , Paul made a dive for his coat only to be halted by his mother 's withering glare . |
| 3 | Two such visitors had come and gone since her arrival at Roscarrock Hall , one an Irish priest on his way out to Galicia and the other an Oxford scholar on his way to train as a Jesuit in France . |
| 4 | The plaintiff was riding on the tow bar at the back of a traxcavator on his way back to the canteen . |
| 5 | In the course of his summing up to the jury , he stated : |
| 6 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 7 | He explained that it was the delighted reaction of his bodyguards upstairs to the successive Tory victories . |
| 8 | If he takes his clothes off , which he does not do very easily because it hurts so much , one sees open wounds from the top of his chest down to his toes . |
| 9 | Surgeons had to put 123 stitches in the victim 's wound , which ran from the top of his face down to his mouth , Paisley Sheriff Court was told . |
| 10 | Robyn gazed up at the billowing white clouds and a longing for Luke 's touch , unlike anything she had ever felt before , overwhelmed her completely — her whole being ached with the desire to be held in his arms , to feel the strength and comfort and warmth of his body close to hers . |
| 11 | If he finds a job , it is not likely to be on Wall Street and he would have to hand a quarter of his earnings back to the Brooklyn centre . |
| 12 | About this time Berthelet turned active supervision of his printing-house over to his nephew , Thomas Powell , probably by 1549 when he was granted a coat of arms . |
| 13 | By diminishing the outward evidence of his authority almost to the point of invisibility , he demonstrated to the people and perhaps more importantly to himself that he could perform his duties not only without resort to force but without any discernible support at all : like Hugh Clifford 's Sir Philip Hanbury-Erskine choosing to deal with rebellion not as a governor but as ‘ a man ’ , he was effacing not himself but his institutional context . |
| 14 | ‘ Madam , I judge that my lord of Gloucester has the welfare of his nephews close to his heart , ’ the chancellor told her . |
| 15 | Details on his memorial in Christ Church , Macclesfield , describes him as " A Gentleman with a slender Portion on his Entrance in to Business . " |
| 16 | Picking up the glass ball on his way back to bed , Mungo was still haunted by the episode in the forest . |
| 17 | Peter was famous for nothing besides denying the Lord and putting his foot in his mouth up to the kneecap on several occasions , but he was chosen . |
| 18 | Wilfrid , however , reacted passionately , if not to the partition of his diocese then to his expulsion and to the bishops who were appointed from communities other than his own — Eata , who had been obliged to leave a new monastic foundation at Ripon to make way for Wilfrid in Ealhfrith 's time , now consecrated bishop in Bernicia with his see at Wilfrid 's monastic foundation at Hexham ; Eadhaed , a former companion of Chad ( HE 111 , 28 ) , bishop of Lindsey ; and Bosa , trained at Whitby where the community under Abbess Hild had opposed acceptance of the Roman Easter at the council of Whitby , bishop of Deira at York ( HE IV , 12 ) . |
| 19 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 20 | By consequence of his inaction , he is the only leading communist of his generation today to be completely untainted by the 1956 uprising and its aftermath . |
| 21 | He did n't take his hands out of his pockets and coughed , ash falling from the tip of his cigarette on to his coat . |
| 22 | And of the three of us who knew there was to be a young man on his way down to us by that path during the evening , how many have already made the leap forward to give this nameless victim a name , and begin to see certain reasons why it might be expedient for some if he never reached us ? |
| 23 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 24 | Comprising eight installations selected from a working career of fifteen years , the exhibition is the most comprehensive survey of his art yet to be mounted , and has been organised in conjunction with the Kunsthalle in Basel , where it was seen in April and May . |
| 25 | I seem to remember a couple of his headers back to the goalie going astray last year ( including one in that humil iating defeat at Man City , 4–0 ) . |
| 26 | I refer the Minister to his reference earlier to a scheme in Salford , where my constituency is . |
| 27 | When the unions took industrial action against a no-strike clause in the latest contract proposals , Murdoch moved production of his papers overnight to the plant at Wapping — previously said to be for the News of the World alone . |
| 28 | Mr Singh , a Kenyan Asian , confessed to me , after I had been a friend of the family for several years , that he was neither fluent in Swahili , the language of his education up to 13 , nor in Punjabi , his mother tongue . |
| 29 | He opened the envelope on his way back to the theatre . |