Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’ |
| 2 | Before she had a chance to enquire or even reply to his question , he was speaking again . |
| 3 | Before an order appointing the official receiver as interim receiver can be made , the applicant must deposit with him , or otherwise secure to his satisfaction , such sum as the court directs to cover his fees and expenses ( r 6.53(1) ) . |
| 4 | Mark is visibly angry with ‘ them ’ , the faceless bureaucrats who made the rules that nearly lead to his ruin . |
| 5 | Naturally he was eager to do business , and so turned to his training officer for assistance . |
| 6 | Why we may go walks together , and not go to his house where there is all his family I simply can not imagine . |
| 7 | Why not , since some of her Midland concerts would be advertised in the local press , and inevitably come to his notice ? |
| 8 | There , whilst waiting , he had made the mistake of sitting down , and now discovered to his chagrin that when he wanted to stand again his legs would not respond . |
| 9 | The Cherokee pilot saw the Cheetah pilot slumped in his cockpit and immediately went to his aid . |
| 10 | Peacock scored twice to accelerate Charlton 's slide down the table and then apologised to his dad Keith , Charlton 's reserve team coach . |
| 11 | He lifted the curtain to his lips , kissed it tenderly , and then turned to his audience . |
| 12 | When not working , Reay 's main interest is snooker of which he is ‘ very , very keen ’ and then referring to his colleague , Keith Smith , he said , for the benefit of the Glenpatrick News that Keith ‘ loves cream cakes . ’ |
| 13 | As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room . |
| 14 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |
| 15 | PC Laney made a brief note , and then returned to his tour of duty . |
| 16 | Philby remained bitter towards Burgess , whose defection had thrown suspicion on him and ultimately led to his unmasking . |
| 17 | The inability of Mr Frohnmayer to come down squarely on one side of this debate or the other plagued his early tenure , and ultimately contributed to his vulnerability when Mr Buchanan stepped up his attack . |
| 18 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 19 | Two years later , he left work to visit his sick father in Peking , and never returned to his unit . |
| 20 | Farrell looked puzzled but merely nodded to his companion . |
| 21 | Shaking a little at first but gradually warming to his theme , the sacked Chancellor dealt John Major a devastating blow . |