Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vincent , baffled and angered by his parents ' pessimism , lost his temper when they told him not to write to his uncle and aunt in Amsterdam . |
| 2 | He just withdrew to his room ; the more he was questioned the more witless he seemed , muttering about shadows on Kinghorn Ness . ’ |
| 3 | He finally succumbed to his malady while convalescing in France , where he is buried in the English churchyard at Nice . |
| 4 | ‘ You will have a trying day tomorrow ’ , he once said to his District Magistrate while Chief Commissioner of Delhi ; ‘ You will be on the alert all day and will probably have a riot . |
| 5 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 6 | He also apologised to his brother , William , and Bill Day , and stated that as God was his judge , they were never involved . |
| 7 | He probably went to his death without once seeing Clara in this state ! ’ |
| 8 | In 1880 he temporarily returned to his birthplace , Zala , and built a studio at his ancestral home . |
| 9 | His century was greeted with an angry scythe of the bat in the direction of the Notts dressing-room , but he later apologised to his skipper for being ‘ a bit naive ’ . |
| 10 | He later confessed to his probation officer . |
| 11 | He had found a mews flat in Fulham , convenient for his work , but he often returned to his family only at weekends . |
| 12 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 13 | He got up from his chair and put his spectacles into a red leather case which he then returned to his pocket . |
| 14 | He then pointed to his forehead , growling that if I did n't have anything up there then I could n't be a singer . |
| 15 | He then pointed to his helmet and was heard to say ‘ If it was n't for that I 'd be dead . ’ |
| 16 | Taking his curtain calls after a successful speech , he drew her to him by the hand and entwined his arms with hers until she gently shook him off , whereupon he enjoyed his triumph for a while manfully alone , until he again resorted to his wife Glenys , going to fetch her , leading her again by the hand , and holding her by the waist . |