Example sentences of "to his [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I intend to give myself a reward , ’ Merrill said , going over to his window and closing it . |
| 3 | I scampered to his window and begged him not to call my remaining number , but he did . |
| 4 | You tie his legs too , fitting the rope up to his crotch and tying it tight , bunching the fabric of the slacks . |
| 5 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 6 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 7 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 8 | He turned in sheer desperation to his parents and wrote them a letter , prompted by the news of the death of a cousin . |
| 9 | ‘ But tomorrow and every birthday after I 'll go to his grave and tell him : ‘ Happy birthday Donald No Surrender ’ . ’ |
| 10 | I just hope to God it does n't all go to his head and burn him out . |
| 11 | Two armed men held a gun to his head and made him drive the bomb to the heart of Westminster after hiring the cab at his office . |
| 12 | I drag my knee in to his head and grind it into his face . |
| 13 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 14 | When he saw Mrs Goreng disembarking from her jeep , he at once made himself scarce , retiring through the back of the shop to his living-quarters and instructing me to deal with this dissatisfied , difficult , and , in all likelihood , dangerous customer . |
| 15 | On their third date he took her back to his surgery and raped her . |
| 16 | Following the incident with the boy a Dig Daddy style man had gone to his door and beaten him up . |
| 17 | Following the incident with the boy a Dig Daddy style man had gone to his door and beaten him up . |
| 18 | Philip raised the gun to his shoulder and sited it on Rebel and the lamb . |
| 19 | The Lord spoke to a nightwatchman in the port of Valparaiso in a dream , instructing him to go to his pastor and tell him to gather his most spiritual people together to pray every day . |
| 20 | Lord Wakeham , who had come with the necessary cheque , had muttered something about boys being boys , and that Robertson would do well to go to his hotel and sleep it off . |
| 21 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 22 | ‘ Thank God Ricky 'll come to his senses and sack you now . ’ |
| 23 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 24 | Brutus was the only person in the play who was n't working for himself and although he was idealistic , he stuck to his plans and carried them through . |
| 25 | Jane slid on to his lap and kissed him on the mouth . |
| 26 | Every evening since Boxing Night she had come to his basement-room and allowed him to make love to her . |
| 27 | Taking the name Peter he returned home , took the Gospel to his friends and baptized them . |
| 28 | Then he led her to his bed and let her sleep , childlike in her position as she sucked her thumb . |
| 29 | Noting the gesture , Joseph moved smartly over to his daughter and escorted her back aboard . |
| 30 | Wurlitzer originally wrote a quite different last chapter to his novel but threw it away because it seemed too analytical . |