Example sentences of "[verb] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , they regard a novel as the creation of a particular human being , who has a particular vision of the world , which he tries to communicate to his or her readers by employing the codes of narrative and language in a particular way , and is responsible for the novel 's success or failure in this regard , and deserves praise or blame accordingly . |
| 2 | Vincent , baffled and angered by his parents ' pessimism , lost his temper when they told him not to write to his uncle and aunt in Amsterdam . |
| 3 | I want to write to his mother . |
| 4 | The rapid progress towards integration which seemed to be occurring also , in December 1952 , led the Dutch foreign minister to write to his counterparts that the extent of political and military integration currently under consideration should be accompanied by an equally extensive economic integration — in short , by a common market . |
| 5 | ‘ S'pose I 'll have to write to his mother , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Major Henches , another artilleryman ( killed on the Somme that autumn ) found time to write to his wife during the May fighting at Verdun : |
| 7 | He 's supposed to write to his grandpa every month but so far we have n't |
| 8 | Already Simon was trying to struggle to his feet . |
| 9 | Again he tried unsuccessfully to struggle to his feet , but failed . |
| 10 | As Broom-Parker attempted to struggle to his feet , she leant forward and tweaked both ends of his moustache . |
| 11 | From another the Youngest Son began to struggle to his feet . |
| 12 | Mike almost grinned as Graham moved to his desk and flicked the intercom switch . |
| 13 | At any rate , in the spring of 1905 she had married Bruce in Gore and moved to his farm outside Edendale . |
| 14 | He moved to his hut . |
| 15 | After 1537 Musgrave mostly abandoned Cumberland and moved to his house in London . |
| 16 | Restlessly he moved to his desk and focused the reading lamp on a book , some potted critical work on Marlowe . |
| 17 | When he moved to his present school , he abandoned individualised learning and lessons fell very much into the mode of ‘ exposition by the teacher , pupils do the exercise ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ For Christ 's sake get an anaesthetist down here and shut him up , ’ Jack Lawrence grunted , and moved to his head , checking his pupils automatically . |
| 19 | Gooch moved to his 50 his third in eight days at Old Trafford with his sixth four , off DeFreitas . |
| 20 | John Ruscoe : an ICL consultant who moved to his Orkney telefarm six years ago |
| 21 | Nicholson 's horses have been in sparkling form this season since he moved to his new yard and Baydon Star was sent off a surprisingly generous 13-8 favourite . |
| 22 | So before leaping to his defence I waited until another column appeared , which I have tried to read in a less partisan manner . |
| 23 | Leaping to his feet , Angel charged Luke , about to drag him off his horse . |
| 24 | ‘ Righto , ’ Dad would say , leaping to his feet with the zest of a thirty-year-old . |
| 25 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm saying nothing of the kind , ’ snapped Penry , leaping to his feet . |
| 27 | ‘ I like to encourage precise , analytical draughtsmanship which is best executed in pencil , ’ Norman Blamey told Julian Halsby when he talked to him recently about his teaching and approached to his own paintings |
| 28 | In the Nixon-Kissinger years , while there was no direct military intervention against the democratically-elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende , there was certainly a concerted destabilisation programme which contributed to his fall from power . |
| 29 | Perhaps that contributed to his good looks , thought Charles , and bent to pull up his wrinkled socks as Dimity had told him . |
| 30 | One incident which contributed to his training managed to reach the national papers . |