Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they reach their destination , the driver stops the car beneath a rare working streetlamp and his passenger feels a tremor of recognition , but is reassured by Valentin that he has heard all the jokes before and he wo n't be passing them on to his mother . |
| 2 | He took the strip of plaster from the pouch at his belt and peeled off two short lengths , taping them loosely to his upper arm . |
| 3 | We went straight to my home , and there , before my parents , Leslie pulled me on to his knee and said : ‘ Will you marry me ? ’ |
| 4 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 5 | In his imagination he saw Brückner stuffing them in to his pockets , wrapped in the clothing of the woman he had raped , while his companion murdered her . |
| 6 | ‘ Several minutes after we returned , my station officer called me in to his office and warned me that as I was not working by London Ambulance Service guidelines I would be stood down without pay . ’ |
| 7 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 8 | Then he turned to me , apologising for keeping me waiting , and showed me in to his office . |
| 9 | Unless we send someone back to his country of origin , it is almost impossible to test the authenticity of the statements that he makes . |
| 10 | A confirmed five-string user , John agrees to try the Pedulla , adding that he 's really no fan of Bartolini pickups , having tried them before and found them not to his taste . |
| 11 | God-like , Niall flings himself on to his adoring audience , sinks beneath the waves and is eventually restored to the stage in time for the anti-rap encore of ‘ Where 's Me Jumper ’ . |
| 12 | By the time Daak managed to haul himself on to his couch , the floor was angled at forty-five degrees , and tilting faster . |
| 13 | With great difficulty , he levered himself on to his feet . |
| 14 | Rostov lowered himself on to his knees and sat back on his heels . |
| 15 | There , he was able to lift himself on to his crutch again and then climb out of the stockade . |
| 16 | He hurled himself on to his face . |
| 17 | He swung himself on to his horse , and with an airy wave clattered into the darkness . |
| 18 | I think he would have liked another , but instead he pulled himself slowly to his feet . |
| 19 | The goalkeeper was also required to throw himself acrobatically to his left-hand post when a header from Ferguson off a Robertson freekick once again underlined his threat . |
| 20 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 21 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 22 | After his retirement from the Institut Pasteur , where he lectured for some 50 years , he devoted himself entirely to his cookery studies . |
| 23 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 24 | In years gone by , some say , the Bank 's governor ( Eddie George , from July ) would have stopped the rot by calling somebody in to his office for tea . |
| 25 | ‘ Just stand back , ’ he growled , as he lifted himself painfully to his feet . |
| 26 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |
| 27 | After further disagreements with Hoveyda , Zahedi left the Foreign Ministry and took himself off to his fathers house in Switzerland . |
| 28 | He bowed reluctantly , and took himself off to his post . |
| 29 | He applied himself enthusiastically to his studies , to the extent that during one term he was attending night classes after completing his normal day classes at Queensbury Highter Elementary School in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 30 | Edward was in a foul mood , applying himself obsessively to his studies , encouraging no conversation . |