Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she did n't think she had imagined that , when her head had dropped wearily on to his shoulder , his arms had tightened about her . |
| 2 | Then he heaved in a breath that must have gone right down to his toes , and his whole body arched and stiffened , and then relaxed on as prolonged an exhalation . |
| 3 | ‘ He still cuts instinctively inside to his left . |
| 4 | Nor has any of them had to respond so intensely to his wishes . |
| 5 | The field fell gently downhill to his left , tipping its little , secret , underground streams towards the River Pleshey , a mile distant . |
| 6 | A few years ago he was pretty effective I 'll admit , but that was almost entirely down to his pace , which he seems to have completely lost since his lengthy ‘ injury ’ . |
| 7 | He 's literally down to his last few pounds |
| 8 | He imparts it so generously to his readers that they may wish to follow him themselves . |
| 9 | Despite the difficulties Frere was committed to his new life and regretted only that enthusiasm came less easily to his wife . |
| 10 | You must be absolutely and totally out of your tiny mind ! she told herself fiercely , ashamed that , despite the apparent sophistication of her twenty-five years , she should have succumbed so quickly to his dark , fatal attraction . |
| 11 | Here things were much more to his taste . |
| 12 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 13 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 14 | She knew precisely to what evidence he referred , had already experienced tactile proof of his arousal when he had held her so close to his warm naked body . |
| 15 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 16 | When she did n't move , he freed her hands to capture her face , tilting it gently up to his . |
| 17 | Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind . |
| 18 | During my time in the army a regimental quartermaster who was repeatedly having to exchange soiled blankets would protest so vehemently to his commanding officer that drastic action had to be taken . |
| 19 | But if you read that rather strange , moving document , you will see very well what I mean , when I refer to Russell 's emotional difficulty in accepting what commended itself so strongly to his intellect , a purely naturalistic , scientific account of what things are . |
| 20 | To prove that his feelings for her had in no way changed , Harry kissed her as she wanted , his tongue probing her mouth , which was raised so invitingly to his . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , no ! ’ he gave a deep rumble of laughter , the sound echoing menacingly in her ear , which was pressed so closely to his broad chest . |
| 22 | ‘ Either you tell me , or I 'll march right over to his room and ask him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Fucking amazing , you can just ring right through to his office . |
| 24 | Pip struggling to become a gentleman and find mutual love with Estella takes him through his early teens when he left his apprenticeship right through to his middle-age where the next major change takes place . |
| 25 | The sun was low in the sky somewhere away to his right , and the castle on the Mount was bathed in magical golden light . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah , I do n't think anything could faze us any more , ’ sighs world-weary Patrick , already on to his second career , being a qualified doctor . |
| 27 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 28 | This is particularly marked in The Mysteries of Udolpho , for when Mrs Radcliffe describes the cottage in which her heroine has taken shelter , she writes of this ‘ bower of sweets ’ as though the reader stood outside it , although Emily , whose view he shares , is indoors , at her bedroom window : ‘ The cottage , which was shaded by the woods from the intenser rays of the sun , and was open only to his evening light , was covered entirely with vines , fig-trees , and jessamine whose flowers surpassed in size and fragrance any that Emily had seen . ’ |
| 29 | She looked up at him and her mouth , already close to his , moved closer , seemed to falter , then moved closer and they kissed . |
| 30 | He was soon up to his old tricks and with a view to recouping his losses he chartered a yacht called Filden I from its unsuspecting and perfectly respectable owner . |