Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 2 | The smile disappeared , his head fell and , as he set off to catch up with his children and dog who were racing ahead . |
| 3 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 4 | Travis moved then , standing up to shrug out of his robe . |
| 5 | Nicholson sucked in an angry breath and turned back to look out of his office window . |
| 6 | Delaney spent some twenty minutes with the captain and crew in the red-lit cockpit with its enormous banks of dials , before passing back to change out of his suit and to check his own equipment . |
| 7 | With typical American generosity of heart , his mother had set out to make up for his disabilities . |
| 8 | Now machine-guns on the ground showed flame , and as he curled around to line up with his targets he saw smaller aircraft Rumplers or maybe Aviatiks — taxi-ing across the field . |
| 9 | A month later , just before he was about to set off on his journey ‘ into the interior by way of Namoi , Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin in Hobart of his progress so far : ‘ After spending a fortnight in the lowland brushes I proceeded to the upper districts and the Liverpool ranges whence I have just returned having made several discoveries of new species both of Birds and Quadrupeds , of the latter I believe I have two new kinds of Kangaroo . ’ |
| 10 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |
| 11 | He 'd been sailing close to the wind for years and everything was just about to blow up in his face . ’ |
| 12 | In 1072 William led a large army up to Stirling , forded the river there , and rode on to join up with his fleet entering the Tay . |