Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Paul looked down at his own oiled body , then spat on to his palm for added lubrication . |
| 2 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 3 | ‘ Aye ; well ’ — he got on to his feet now — ‘ it takes somebody to expose it . |
| 4 | He got on to his knees , then rose in a crouch and hit Pascoe full on the chest with a tight fist . |
| 5 | Pascoe got on to his knees like a man at prayer , and hauled Singer towards him by his hair , punching twice , hard , as he pulled the man in . |
| 6 | And Marie , oblivious of her cold , wet jacket , clung on to his arm as they walked along . |
| 7 | … which is not until Act 5 , when the poet re-enters briefly , prattling on to his captors ' exasperation . |
| 8 | You may also need to lay on a messenger service to deliver the film to the newspaper building while the photographer goes on to his next assignment . |
| 9 | Having established his basic historical schema , Shepherd goes on to his most original contribution , an analysis of how the two ‘ world-views ’ are ‘ encoded ’ in music , in each case the musical structures and the structures of society and of social consciousness forming ‘ homologies ’ . |
| 10 | However , the end of the poker ripped the knuckles of the hand he had thrust up to shield himself and blood was spattered on to his face . |
| 11 | The ‘ foolish years ’ as a Battersea Grammar school boy confirmed certain attitudes that Edward Thomas never abandoned and that he passed on to his children . |
| 12 | Knowledge concerning that enlightenment was what he passed on to his disciples , and this — the positive content of the Four Noble Truths and the teaching of the Middle Way — is what has made Buddhism live down the ages and still today . |
| 13 | The days were truly apocalyptic ; sadly , many of the commentators and reviewers , the would-be art leaders , were merely apoplectic ; not least in fastening on to his overt sexuality , their criticisms of him shielding their own neuroses . |
| 14 | Of late , though , after his meetings with Eleanor , he had had to go on to his third level of fantasy . |
| 15 | There 's this man and woman walking by with lots of shopping bags and a little boy hanging on to his Dad 's belt . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Jim Courier was last night hanging on to his world No 1 ranking and survival in the $2.5m IBM ATP World Championships by his finger tips . |
| 17 | In return they suck up to him , hanging on to his every word , laughing on cue . |
| 18 | He kept rolling , still hanging on to his weapons , and fell over the front of the Jeep and on to the pavement outside . |
| 19 | He swung himself astride the dragon awkwardly , because Rincewind was hanging on to his belt . |
| 20 | Shifty-Eyes could n't do much about it as I was hanging on to his foot . |
| 21 | Schellenberg , who felt that he was only hanging on to his sanity by his fingernails , said , ‘ But , Reichsführer , what if Devlin does n't wish to be persuaded ? ’ |
| 22 | Then Julius got slowly to his feet , looking very much older than his thirty-six years . |
| 23 | With a disbelieving smile , he released her and got slowly to his feet . |
| 24 | Maxim got slowly to his feet his thoughtfull face sending a shiver through George , because that look usually meant he might be going to do something . |
| 25 | Her voice was tentative , shaken , and he got slowly to his feet , searching her face . |
| 26 | Bemused , a little frightened , he got slowly to his feet and looked around him . |
| 27 | She tore her mouth away , averting her burning face as Penry got unhurriedly to his feet . |
| 28 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
| 29 | At nights he imagined she was beside him in bed , naked and wanton , submitting eagerly to his advances . |
| 30 | Kynaston nodded and got down to his familiar routine . |