Example sentences of "to his [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring Ellie , he walked across to his sister and twitched the note out of her hand . |
| 2 | Giving him a doubtful look and a lame smile , she turned back to his sister and asked , ‘ When are you getting married ? ’ |
| 3 | I rang Michael and said I 'd like to go over and persuade him , and drove to his cottage and talked at length about how I saw it and why I really wanted his sort of ability and personality . |
| 4 | He stopped packing rucsacs on to his sledge and looked . |
| 5 | His hand went up to his collar and started to loosen his tie . |
| 6 | The driver turned to his fireman and said ‘ what are you waiting for , get that oil can and oil the rails ’ . |
| 7 | I scampered to his window and begged him not to call my remaining number , but he did . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | He raised his trembling hand to his forehead and felt the dampness of sweat against his skin . |
| 11 | Woolley refused to see them ; he had retired to his hut and practised the accordion . |
| 12 | He turned in sheer desperation to his parents and wrote them a letter , prompted by the news of the death of a cousin . |
| 13 | He did not look at her as he said it , but there was a sudden unmistakably sharp edge to his voice that warned Ronni that the smile had gone from his face . |
| 14 | Buck strode up to his ball and had a long consultation with his caddy . |
| 15 | He led me to his booth and typed a few keys on the control panel . |
| 16 | Shortly afterwards he said good night to his master and made his way home . |
| 17 | They stayed close together at the edge of the clearing , Michael and the thin man with arrows ready notched , Hugh with his left hand on his sword hilt ; the Friar 's sack was now tried with a rope to his belt and slung over his shoulder . |
| 18 | Crown counsel said police received a complaint from a man on January 12 , 1992 , saying John Murray had held a gun to his head and threatened to kill him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He remained still and one of them settled on his shoulder , hopped to his head and reached a yellow beak to peck at his eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ Because he was forever making dens in trees , ’ said his nan , who knew this was another , ‘ and one day a big crow flew up and scared him and he lost his hold and fell on to his head and stopped growing so let that be a lesson to you . ’ |
| 22 | A JILTED lover put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger in front of his horrified ex-girlfriend yesterday . |
| 23 | He pointed to his head and mimed the whisking away of his hat . |
| 24 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 25 | Mr Lockwood did not appear and the daughter went to his home and demanded to know why . |
| 26 | The gang then went to his home and shot his aged mother . |
| 27 | He knew that if he gave vent to his feelings and shouted at Jonna , it would upset Annie . |
| 28 | On their third date he took her back to his surgery and raped her . |
| 29 | ‘ Christ 'ent it bloody 'ot , ’ Billy Tolboys breathed the words as he took his arm from around Mary 's waist and expertly swung the heavy stone jar on to his shoulder and took a deep swig . |
| 30 | He put down his glass of tea , lifted the rifle to his shoulder and trudged off into the debris . |