Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Van Cheele was driving his guest back to the station . |
| 2 | Pushing his way back to the keep 's main entrance , Ramsay found Douglas emerging . |
| 3 | I ran upstairs to see what I could , and there he was , torch and all , running down the garden and then dodging his way up to the cliff path , and fast , as if he knew exactly where he was going . |
| 4 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 5 | He stretched , turning his face up to the sun . |
| 6 | He glanced quickly across to check on Delaney and Nell , and was turning his attention back to the others , when he frowned . |
| 7 | ‘ God give me strength , ’ he yelled , instantly turning his attention back to the younger man who stood before him , and whose woebegone expression would have been comical were it not so pitiful . |
| 8 | Turning his attention back to the sea of faces crowding the corridor on either side of him , he addressed them firmly , injecting his voice with a confidence he did n't feel in order to reassure them . |
| 9 | William left him holding his glass up to the light from the kitchen window and frowning slightly . |
| 10 | He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . |
| 11 | He shrugged , tossing the book on to the table and swinging his legs down to the floor . |
| 12 | On a shingle spit which connects a tiny island to the shores of Mainland , a tern colony became established every summer , and the local crofter would stop taking his tractor over to the island during the time the birds were nesting . |
| 13 | Taking his plate through to the kitchen , he washed it and filled the kettle . |
| 14 | round about the first world war time , he used this sort of sort of pitching his tent up to the and staying there and learning their language and observing their rituals , getting to know them . |
| 15 | He looked about him , his head lifted , his heart suddenly warmed by their concern for him , then turned and began making his way back to the imperial craft . |
| 16 | Down the road at the Gloucester leisure centre it was a weekend for table tennis fans … over 300 players were competing in the Cotswold Junior championships … the boys title went to Surrey … the girls to Yorkshire but local boy Ray Powell raised the roof by fighting his way through to the semi-finals |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm having it , ’ said Nutty , barging his way in to the dining-room . |
| 18 | Paradise Street police station , ’ Freddie called out in his most cultured voice , putting his face up to the closed wicket-gate . |
| 19 | But , when she saw one of the tough , huge policemen casting his eyes up to the ceiling in exasperation , she hurriedly continued her story . |
| 20 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 21 | He taught for ten years before moving into industry and working his way up to the post of project manager for a major construction company . |
| 22 | He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end . |
| 23 | Picture guitarist Michael McKeegan jerking his way back to the table in the style of Gary Numan ! |