Example sentences of "to his [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " 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 | As she turned her back on him , she was breathless with rage , lying staring at the darkened wall of the cabin , aware he had completely turned her confrontation to his advantage and beaten her hands down . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards he said good night to his master and made his way home . |
| 11 | The surgeon apparently did not listen to his patient or respect her bodily integrity . |
| 12 | ‘ But tomorrow and every birthday after I 'll go to his grave and tell him : ‘ Happy birthday Donald No Surrender ’ . ’ |
| 13 | He mumbles , ‘ Oh shit ’ , puts the gun to his head and shoots himself . |
| 14 | I just hope to God it does n't all go to his head and burn him out . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I drag my knee in to his head and grind it into his face . |
| 17 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 18 | The gang then went to his home and shot his aged mother . |
| 19 | Now I do n't suppose he 'll never get to his home and see his wile again . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 22 | On their third date he took her back to his surgery and raped her . |
| 23 | Following the incident with the boy a Dig Daddy style man had gone to his door and beaten him up . |
| 24 | Following the incident with the boy a Dig Daddy style man had gone to his door and beaten him up . |
| 25 | Philip raised the gun to his shoulder and sited it on Rebel and the lamb . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When her younger brother was being bullied it was she who leapt to his defence and up-ended his tormentor in a matter of seconds . |
| 30 | ‘ Thank God Ricky 'll come to his senses and sack you now . ’ |