Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lowered his heels to the floor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She clung on desperately for reprieve , but none came ; he would n't stop , his mouth burning down over hers while he pinned her wrists to the bed , driven beyond his limits by her refusal , and she felt her breasts against his chest , her eyes open , seeing his face , hearing his hoarse breathing , the way he drew air into his lungs raggedly before lowering his head to kiss her again , his heart beating and his black hair tousled and his tie pulled loose in the scuffle … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He lifted her fingers to the head of his parrot and stroked them down along its back . |
| 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 | Although he insisted right , that they did this , that , and the other and he followed their instructions to the letter |
| 14 | He followed her eyes to the sides of the room where there were huge tapestries depicting nymphs and shepherds playing in a landscape filled with trees and winding streams . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He raised his hands to the sky . |
| 17 | as if seized with prophetic fire he raised his eyes to the ceiling , and said : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As go-between , the Spirit not only teaches us the truth of God , he opens our eyes to the one in whom that truth became incarnate , and guides us in our lives . |
| 20 | In fat he owed his flocks to the overruling of God , and to the practice of selective breeding which the dream revealed . |
| 21 | He offered his services to the Edinburgh Missionary Society as an overseas candidate , thus fulfilling a youthful ambition . |
| 22 | But apart from that , he offered his skills to the highest bidder and would produce any type of paper to order . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's yours , ’ I say , and he pins my wrists to the floor . |
| 24 | He tapped his feet to the music . |
| 25 | Instead he put her feet to the ground , then took a clean handkerchief to dab gently at the broken skin , saying as he did so , ‘ There 's a first-aid kit in the minibus . |
| 26 | I am reminded of the ant who asked the centipede in what order he put his feet to the ground . |
| 27 | Moran was the best player and mostly won but that night he attributed his winnings to the cards he had been dealt . |
| 28 | He puts his lips to the lip of the glass |
| 29 | He gave his condolences to the widow and said that he hoped whoever had perpetrated this terrible deed would soon be brought to justice . |
| 30 | When his team played at home he confined his break-ins to the London area . |