Example sentences of "he [verb] his [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These doctors must be grossly overpaid , unless — yes , Toby Latimer clearly had a private income which allowed him to indulge his tastes to the full . |
| 2 | His quest for glory has caused him to stretch his energies to the absolute limit . |
| 3 | He lowered his heels to the floor . |
| 4 | In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter . |
| 5 | gave a judgment to the like effect , although he limited his remarks to the ability of a corporation to sue for a libel reflecting on the management of its trade or business . |
| 6 | Had he confined his attentions to the Austrian provinces and Bohemia the story might have been very different ; but the nationalism of the Hungarians ( or at least their ruling class ) and the ingrained particularist conservatism of the Netherlands provinces , above all Brabant , proved too much for him . |
| 7 | She looked flirtatiously at Urquhart and held his gaze before he dropped his eyes to the table . |
| 8 | Before opening the file he added his initials to the readership list gummed to the top right corner . |
| 9 | He turned his canvases to the wall and laid down his brushes … |
| 10 | Watching her , staring into her eyes , he opened his furs to the breast and cut four lines with the wood , marking himself . |
| 11 | He opened his eyes to the quiet darkness , the moonlight , the breeze from the window that his helper had opened . |
| 12 | A tall , powerfully built man with short hair and a well-trimmed moustache , he paid his respects to the young gangsters who were technically his enemies . |
| 13 | Seeing the betraying movement , his hand slid down to close lightly around her throat ; then he touched his lips to the corner of her mouth with delicate precision before planting a series of soft baby kisses along the clean line of her jaw . |
| 14 | He raised his hands to the sky . |
| 15 | as if seized with prophetic fire he raised his eyes to the ceiling , and said : |
| 16 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 17 | In fat he owed his flocks to the overruling of God , and to the practice of selective breeding which the dream revealed . |
| 18 | He offered his services to the Edinburgh Missionary Society as an overseas candidate , thus fulfilling a youthful ambition . |
| 19 | But apart from that , he offered his skills to the highest bidder and would produce any type of paper to order . |
| 20 | He tapped his feet to the music . |
| 21 | I am reminded of the ant who asked the centipede in what order he put his feet to the ground . |
| 22 | Moran was the best player and mostly won but that night he attributed his winnings to the cards he had been dealt . |
| 23 | He puts his lips to the lip of the glass |
| 24 | He gave his condolences to the widow and said that he hoped whoever had perpetrated this terrible deed would soon be brought to justice . |
| 25 | When his team played at home he confined his break-ins to the London area . |
| 26 | Will he extend his congratulations to the West Midlands police , who have civilianised 413 posts since 1985 ? |
| 27 | All well and good until he extends his ideas to the god Uranus , which he enthusiastically does . |
| 28 | Will he turn his eyes to the country as a whole and to the north — to the West Riding and my own constituency , where the health service is thought to be one of the best in Europe ? |
| 29 | He set his hands to the chair arms , as if about to rise . |
| 30 | With an effort he redirected his thoughts to the problem of what films the Palladium should show in the near future . |