Example sentences of "[vb past] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to his hut . |
| 2 | John Ruscoe : an ICL consultant who moved to his Orkney telefarm six years ago |
| 3 | ‘ For Christ 's sake get an anaesthetist down here and shut him up , ’ Jack Lawrence grunted , and moved to his head , checking his pupils automatically . |
| 4 | Mike almost grinned as Graham moved to his desk and flicked the intercom switch . |
| 5 | Restlessly he moved to his desk and focused the reading lamp on a book , some potted critical work on Marlowe . |
| 6 | At any rate , in the spring of 1905 she had married Bruce in Gore and moved to his farm outside Edendale . |
| 7 | After 1537 Musgrave mostly abandoned Cumberland and moved to his house in London . |
| 8 | In the Nixon-Kissinger years , while there was no direct military intervention against the democratically-elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende , there was certainly a concerted destabilisation programme which contributed to his fall from power . |
| 9 | Godoy , Prince of the Peace , was neither a reactionary nor a brutal tyrant ; indeed he was a mild progressive who consistently posed as the friend of enlightenment , earning for himself that hatred of priests and monks which contributed to his fall . |
| 10 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 11 | One incident which contributed to his training managed to reach the national papers . |
| 12 | Again , Thompson demonstrated to his satisfaction that , on the basis of known physical laws , the sun could not be older than 500 million years , and that therefore the time-scale required for geological and biological evolution on the earth was impossible . |
| 13 | you know , dedicated to his club and all this |
| 14 | He pretended to his family and friends that his doddering gait was due to old soccer injuries . |
| 15 | THE very first night he took her out , Frank Ableson proposed to his wife , Stella . |
| 16 | ARMY signalman Philip Cooper had a double Christmas Day surprise when he proposed to his girlfriend on television . |
| 17 | OLYMPIC pentathlete Graham Brookhouse proposed to his girlfriend yesterday — on a live radio show . |
| 18 | But instead of panicking , he proposed to his girlfriend , who sat with him throughout the ordeal . |
| 19 | It is very comfortable , tastefully furnished , and set in its own garden , in which Winston Churchill 's father Randolph proposed to his mother Jennie . |
| 20 | Moreover , by 250 the church was freely penetrating the upper levels of Roman society ; at Carthage Cyprian was well-to-do , with his own villa and private resources which he devoted to his church . |
| 21 | The measure of the esteem in which he is held is shown by three forthcoming exhibitions devoted to his contribution : ‘ L'Oeil du Connaisseur : hommage à Philip Pouncey ’ at the Louvre , 19 June-7 September ; another at the Uffizi later this year ( dates unavailable ) , and the third at the British Museum in January 1994 . |
| 22 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 23 | He was a partner in a firm of architects , devoted to his work and in good health , and had always expressed the intention of working as long as he was able . |
| 24 | I go downstairs , a reserved man , devoted to his family , and get the remains of the family joint I cooked for my mother-in-law and Timmy and myself yesterday out of the refrigerator . |
| 25 | ‘ Lewis , ’ the other one rose to his feet and extended his hand . |
| 26 | He pushed the duvet aside and rose to his feet . |
| 27 | Pat finished his cigarette and , looking at me as he rose to his feet , said , ‘ Piper , I believe it is all going to happen today . |
| 28 | With that , he took the letters-patent from his mother , rose to his feet , gave her the kiss of fealty , and took his place on the throne to her right . |
| 29 | The truth he got , but , when he rose to his feet at the splendid Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre to declare the summit open , no more than a few people present had any inkling of what he was about to say . |
| 30 | In the salon where they were all sitting after dinner over glasses of brandy and half-finished cups of coffee , the first courageous guest rose to his feet and bowed with a smile to the lady of the house . |