Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 2 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 3 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 4 | He took it out hastily , lest Lord Boddy notice it and jump to the conclusion that Dyson was mimicking him , and transferred it to his jacket pocket . |
| 5 | As the eldest he had inherited the estate on the death of his father , but he had relinquished it to his brother Julian , the second elder . |
| 6 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 7 | He is too full of hate even to be afraid , he would have accused him to his face . ’ |
| 8 | Should have told him to his face . |
| 9 | ‘ A workman , who had been injured through the breaking of a defective part in the machine with which he was working , brought an action of damages against his employers , and later convened as second defenders the manufacturers of the machine , who had supplied it to his employers , on averments to the effect that the accident had been caused by the fault of the manufacturers in that they failed to supply his employers with a machine which was safe for use by their servants . |
| 10 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 11 | You know , the kid who 's played it to his best friend who tells him it 's great . ’ |
| 12 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 13 | If so , perhaps the explosion and the subsequent punishment have brought him to his senses , for an upsurge in his form was highlighted by a violent century against Leicestershire . |
| 14 | The first tug had awoken him from a complacent slumber , the second had brought him to his feet . |
| 15 | The dealer who had introduced him to his broker became understandably embittered . |
| 16 | Bultmann was primarily a New Testament scholar , and his theological position , once he had settled it to his own satisfaction , remained more or less inflexible thereafter . |
| 17 | Roger usually introduced us to his girl-friends across the breakfast table , so this one had to be important and in the two weeks before her arrival I asked Rog to teach me a formal French greeting . |
| 18 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 19 | Had it also led him to his death ? |
| 20 | She had unbuttoned him to his waist , and pulled his shirt and vest out of his trousers , before she spoke . |
| 21 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
| 22 | He may have had it planned as a mausoleum before his death or friends may have erected it to his memory . |
| 23 | He had thought no more about their excursion until Heather 's disappearance had recalled it to his mind — and been followed by Harry 's visit . |
| 24 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 25 | I could not remember him , but knew he was my mother 's brother , who had taken me to his house when my parents both died . |
| 26 | The cold eventually forced him to his feet . |
| 27 | The policeman explained that Oliver had become ill , and the old gentleman had taken him to his house in the Pentonville district of north London . |
| 28 | The uncle had apparently come to the school gates at the end of school and when the girl was a little way on her way home had caught up with her and taken her to his house . |
| 29 | Since he had not delivered it to his customer ( M ) he had ‘ continued ’ in possession ( albeit wrongfully ) . |
| 30 | Not that he would have admitted it to his men . |