Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Naturally he was eager to do business , and so turned to his training officer for assistance . |
2 | Why we may go walks together , and not go to his house where there is all his family I simply can not imagine . |
3 | Why not , since some of her Midland concerts would be advertised in the local press , and inevitably come to his notice ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The Cherokee pilot saw the Cheetah pilot slumped in his cockpit and immediately went to his aid . |
6 | Peacock scored twice to accelerate Charlton 's slide down the table and then apologised to his dad Keith , Charlton 's reserve team coach . |
7 | He lifted the curtain to his lips , kissed it tenderly , and then turned to his audience . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |
11 | PC Laney made a brief note , and then returned to his tour of duty . |
12 | Philby remained bitter towards Burgess , whose defection had thrown suspicion on him and ultimately led to his unmasking . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Two years later , he left work to visit his sick father in Peking , and never returned to his unit . |