Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks clutched at his chest and slowly tottered to his knees . |
| 2 | Naturally he was eager to do business , and so turned to his training officer for assistance . |
| 3 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 4 | Why we may go walks together , and not go to his house where there is all his family I simply can not imagine . |
| 5 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 6 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 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 | George 's insobriety was disturbing and even wounding to his friends . |
| 10 | The Cherokee pilot saw the Cheetah pilot slumped in his cockpit and immediately went to his aid . |
| 11 | Alfonso , on the other hand , though go-ahead and energetic , was of a docile nature and readily deferred to his parents and his eldest sister Urraca , so that he became the favourite son and developed all the traits of a spoilt child . |
| 12 | The count had a penchant for asking various well-known composers to write chamber works for him — for which they were handsomely paid — and then pretending to his friends that he himself was the composer . |
| 13 | Peacock scored twice to accelerate Charlton 's slide down the table and then apologised to his dad Keith , Charlton 's reserve team coach . |
| 14 | He lifted the curtain to his lips , kissed it tenderly , and then turned to his audience . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |
| 18 | PC Laney made a brief note , and then returned to his tour of duty . |
| 19 | He tensed himself , joyful and afraid , preparing to turn , bow his head and then drop to his knees in proper adoration . |
| 20 | He remembered , but too late , and then stumbled to his feet too quickly , almost knocking over the tiny wine-table which stood by his side . |
| 21 | Philby remained bitter towards Burgess , whose defection had thrown suspicion on him and ultimately led to his unmasking . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Two years later , he left work to visit his sick father in Peking , and never returned to his unit . |