Example sentences of "to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his puzzlement , however , she kept her eyes averted and would n't look at him . |
| 2 | ‘ But my aunt produced a piece of paper supposedly written by my father saying that he leaves the house to his sister-in-law in return for her kindness in looking after me . |
| 3 | He read it in silence , then looked from his wife to his sister-in-law , and back to his wife again . |
| 4 | Erm , but I think he tended to leave the bringing up of the girls to his sister-in-law . |
| 5 | Philip waited till he could n't see him any more , then went back to his hide . |
| 6 | Philip picked up the armful of sticks he 'd gathered and walked across to his hide . |
| 7 | Philip walked back up the ride not turning round till he got to his hide . |
| 8 | In the end , he said that he was the only survivor of a four man crew of Killer-type androids sent here to annihilate two criminals and return an object to his controllers . |
| 9 | He had had a successful academic career at Cambridge University , where he had taken successive degrees leading up to his PhD . |
| 10 | There 's this man and woman walking by with lots of shopping bags and a little boy hanging on to his Dad 's belt . |
| 11 | He looks scared of me , and hangs even tighter on to his Dad 's belt . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've checked it 's all right for us to go ? ’ said his Mum to his Dad as he carne into the waiting-room . |
| 13 | ‘ Stop a minute , ’ she said to his Dad . |
| 14 | Peacock scored twice to accelerate Charlton 's slide down the table and then apologised to his dad Keith , Charlton 's reserve team coach . |
| 15 | How about showing the red card to his dad instead ? — WIN a tenner for your Twit of the Week |
| 16 | ‘ Both worrying about the troubles of the world and how to cure them , but John 's been talking to his dad about this Spanish business and other things and he 'll work things out soon . ’ |
| 17 | Well , erm , Adrian goes on a Mondays and Tuesdays to nursery , and on a Wednesdays and Fridays to his dad , and Tiffany goes on a Tuesday and Thursday and Friday to nursery . |
| 18 | Get on the phone to his dad , for Christ 's sake ! ’ |
| 19 | But he did n't like to go against his grandmother who , in her grim fashion , had been kind to his dad at the last . |
| 20 | He remembers standing next to his dad in Regents Park , both of them in welly boots with plastic bags of bread . |
| 21 | To his dad , they went back to Berlin in nineteen seventy for a visit cos his mum was in a home which |
| 22 | up to erm to his dad 's wine bar or something |
| 23 | He goes to his dad Dad , what 's the fir what 's the second letter of the alphabet ? |
| 24 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 25 | A letter from Charles Carne dated 27 February 1707 to his sister who had married ‘ William of the Ley ’ reads , ‘ My poor sister , the last Brydges of the Ley is dead . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Uncle ’ Hardy had no direct heir , but left Letheringsett to his sister 's son , who was called William Hardy Cozens . |
| 27 | Lycander describes his passion for Terentia to his sister Emilia : |
| 28 | Wolfgang 's postscript , to his mother , is in German ; another , to his sister , is in Italian . |
| 29 | They are recalled as somewhat sad , dependent figures : a ‘ poor old fellow ’ who went out to his sister for his meals ; ‘ a right cripple ’ who had been unable to work for over ten years ; ‘ a very old gentleman ’ who scraped together a living by selling vegetables and tomatoes which he grew in his greenhouse , but was ‘ very unhappy ’ because he had quarrelled with his drunken son . |
| 30 | Denis came forward to his sister , looking stern and said firmly , Sit yourself down , Noreen . ’ |