Example sentences of "to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raconteur and raisonneur , in his art as in his personal life , he is a concealed author who is evident enough in his hotly opinionated fiction : he is not given to expounding his own passionate opinions there , but can be recognised without difficulty in almost every aspect of every one of his novels , including the speech assigned to his often disputatious characters . |
| 2 | There is the moment in the Act II pas de deux or Swan Lake where Odette appears to fly away in an arabesque before Siegfried seizes her arms and draws her body close to his in an embrace . |
| 3 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 4 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 5 | Mr Lawson 's summoning of Tina may have been his subtle way of saying that her policy for combating inflation was no alternative to his . |
| 6 | It gives rise to many of man 's anxieties and failures as well as to his often extraordinary achievements ’ ( pp. x , xi ) . |
| 7 | if he permitted African businessmen to grow [ they ] will grow to the extent of becoming a rival power to his and the party 's prestige , and he would do anything to stop it . |
| 8 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 9 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 10 | The finished result , eleven bound volumes of single-spaced pages , is a testimony to Warnie 's extraordinary patience , as well as to his seemingly inexhaustible appetite for contemplating his own immediate past . |
| 11 | He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself — creatures whose life , on its miniature scale , will be qualitatively like His own , not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His . |
| 12 | And Palin won , arriving back on the eve of his eightieth day , and finding the Reform Club , his starting point , closed to him — or at least to his cameras-and London in the grip of last Christmas 's shopping rush . |
| 13 | Mr Bond is desperate for the deal to stand , since Bell Resources is crucial to his A$2.5billion brewery deal with New Zealand 's Lion Nathan which may underpin a debt restructuring plan for his entire media , property and brewing group , currently labouring to reduce around A$8billion of debts . |
| 14 | He detected a slackening off in his examination work , once he had gained his Exhibition — ‘ a moral weakness , neglect of order in my work and play ’ ; often these ‘ moods ’ sent him back to his digs almost beside himself . |
| 15 | How dared he come to his , Philip 's place , and act like a bird shooter . |
| 16 | Viola 's right leg ( stockinged ) and a frizz of her pubic hair next to his would show the discerning viewer what was going on . |
| 17 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 18 | To his left the row of coats like so many black and patient predators ; to his right the secret horrors trapped beyond the cellar door ; and between them , at the very end of the unlit corridor , Sweetheart 's daytime room , the kitchen . |
| 19 | ‘ My part in this was easy compared to his ’ , North tapped out one night to McFarlane , talking about Poindexter 's handling of the pre-Tehran manoeuvrings ; ‘ I only had to deal with our enemies . |
| 20 | And she pressed her lips to his . |
| 21 | So there I am popping my tray next to his in the unit , when he says , right out of the blue , completely unprovoked , I have n't said anything — |
| 22 | To his , the Tyrant Husband 's Reign succeeds |
| 23 | Even so , Barney Edwards heads off every year to add to his recently exhibited project — Aquatic Exposure . |
| 24 | Her huge eyes , gleaming hazel , rose to his , triumph carefully hidden . |
| 25 | He went up to his room while Marler went to his , dumped his bag on the bed , ran back to the elevator and walked out of the hotel . |
| 26 | He or she is the ‘ fairy godmother ’ of the force , the suspect 's friend , and the person the Act expects will stand up to his or her ( often more senior ) colleagues if there is anything amiss : a dramatic invitation to insubordinated heroics . |
| 27 | Here she raised her square white face up to his and sought his eyes . |
| 28 | At one stage Dave Sprott the northern dentist had suggested they hire a black charabanc and people in Maple Drive , used now to his carefully preserved northern humour , had managed deliberately weak smiles of the kind they managed when Sprott backed them into a corner at someone 's Christmas party . |
| 29 | ‘ Those who followed his career in television , from the role of humble assistant film editor , up through the features department of Granada Television , through to his incredibly successful period as editor of the BBC magazine programme , Holiday '76 , knew him to be resourceful , keen , and deeply aware , not only of the problems of travel — his chosen speciality — but also-of such things as cuisine and interior design . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Bully , ’ cried Angela happily , holding the alsatian 's great head between her hands and putting her face close to his , ‘ I 'll never call you a bad dog again . |