Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said to his boss , like Ken 's boss , Tony I said how are you getting on with your counting ? |
| 2 | Gloomily he confided to his diary , ‘ Too great a task , undertaken with inadequate reserves . ’ |
| 3 | So he went to his wagon alone on his wedding night , and drove unaided up on to the moor , whipping his horses across the wilderness of black , tossing , wet grass . |
| 4 | So he looks to his Lord and Master first of all . |
| 5 | At four o'clock he cycled to his piano lesson with Mr Gordon . |
| 6 | Four weeks later at Avus he was back behind the controls , even through he hobbled to his car on crutches and had to be lifted into the cockpit and the pedals had to be modified because he could use only one foot . |
| 7 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 8 | Pushing the pad aside he returned to his typing . |
| 9 | Years later he wrote to his mistress that while he wove an aesthetic about Kuchuk Hanem he knew that he had vanished completely from her memory . |
| 10 | Ten days later he wrote to his sister saying that he had been asked to write an essay about Baldwin , but that he had refused , for he wished neither to lie nor to publish the truth , which he then proceeded to outline : |
| 11 | Later he said to his wife , ‘ Why did it have to crow at Mr Clare like that ? ’ |
| 12 | A moment later he turned to his right and was violently sick . |
| 13 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 14 | Restlessly he moved to his desk and focused the reading lamp on a book , some potted critical work on Marlowe . |
| 15 | Twenty one years later it passed to his son-in-law , Mark Rainsford I , whose beers and fine ales were brewed here in turn by his son Mark Rainsford II . |
| 16 | So back we went to the station and with joy picked you all up and out we went to his refugee camp . |
| 17 | So back he went to his squadron — No 149 — but he fared no better . |
| 18 | Now he spoke to his neighbour . |
| 19 | " Why did n't you go with him , when he asked you , why did n't you go to his room ? |
| 20 | I think actually he he g does n't he go to his Gym . |
| 21 | Wearily he mounted to his father 's room . |
| 22 | But sometimes they come to his room to watch the video . |
| 23 | Unfortunately he added to his list of injuries by twisting an ankle on landing . |
| 24 | Sometimes he went to his mother 's for dinner . |
| 25 | When he had inspected the target , when he had seen the envy of the officers who were gathered behind him , when he had received the instructor 's grudging approval , then he walked to his guard 's car . |
| 26 | Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers . |
| 27 | Then he went to his wall safe , opened it with the second key on the ring attached by a chain to his trouser belt , and took out his papers . |
| 28 | He and his Chief Wife dined alone at sunset , then he went to his office to work . |
| 29 | The senior Harmon was the best-playing club pro in golf , having won a Masters , then he returned to his golf shop . |
| 30 | Then he returned to his desk and sat behind it . |