Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 2 | Turning to deal with the next , his glance went to the intercommunicating doorway . |
| 3 | His eyes strayed to the rosy-cheeked children who were chattering happily and , to Meredith 's delight , he began to talk as if questioning his own feelings . |
| 4 | His eyes flickered to the small heaving breasts in the decadent lacy brassière as she resisted . |
| 5 | He was concentrating on maintaining his grip and keeping his mind closed to the pressing images of his fate on the rocks below . |
| 6 | His work led to the celebrated equation which bears his name , an equation which can be found written down at the start of every book on quantum mechanics . |
| 7 | The elder Coxe died 19 January 1730 ; at that point he retained the title to Carolana , which his descendants surrendered to the British government in return for land in the colony of New York in 1769 . |
| 8 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ He wo n't be here yet , my dear , ’ said old Mr Clare , as his wife went to the front door for the tenth time . |
| 10 | On the very day his paper went to the General Committee the polytechnic directors were meeting in conference at Coombe Lodge , together with Toby Weaver and others from the DES . |
| 11 | The Crown Prince was just six years old when his father came to the Imperial Throne , and from that moment on all communication — even the most personal — between himself and the Kaiser took place through the formal intermediary of the Chief of the Military Cabinet . |
| 12 | As already mentioned ( see p. 280 ) , Robert Dowland 's Musicall Banquet of 1610 included Caccini 's ‘ Amarilli ’ and ‘ Dovrò , dunque , morire ’ and a solo madrigal , ‘ Se di farmi morire ’ , by an early but unimportant monodist , Domenico Maria Melli , and his father succumbed to the new style in at least three of his last songs . |
| 13 | This restricted freedom revolted Steven Morrissey , and his passion turned to the sixties when the ‘ George Best set ’ particularly liberated the city by proving that escapism is there for all who had eyes enough to avoid entrapment . |
| 14 | Others hand-stitch Connolly hide , or hand-assemble engines : one to a man , his signature appended to the finished product on a brass plate . |
| 15 | His voice sank to the finest whispering thread of sound . |
| 16 | His success led to the rapid demise of the native English tradition by 1730 , and the slender , short-scaled harpsichords were made no more . |
| 17 | As he says in De republica ( 3.5 ) : " Scipio and his friends added to the native usage of our ancestors the teaching of Socrates coming from abroad . " |
| 18 | Attlee and his colleagues clung to the established view that the Frontier peoples were a special British responsibility which could not be abandoned . |