Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of late , though , after his meetings with Eleanor , he had had to go on to his third level of fantasy . |
| 2 | How else could he retain his freehold to pass on to his descendants ? |
| 3 | ‘ And yet this man [ Charles V ] was still possessed by one passionate desire : to pass on to his son Philip , the inheritance intact . |
| 4 | Although Mr Brown , the anti-establishment populist , failed to come close to his win over Mr Clinton in Connecticut two weeks ago , he will undoubtedly fight on as a spoiler until the final primary in California in June . |
| 5 | Edward , now in Oxford , felt obliged to write home to his mother with full details of the affair and for the next fortnight pondered the steps he should take . |
| 6 | Reynolds was a notable conversationalist , well able to stand up to his friends , who included Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke . |
| 7 | Many a teenager has been drawn into behaviour he would rather have avoided simply because he finds himself unable to stand up to his peers or to be the one who is ‘ different ’ . |
| 8 | His only concern at that time was whether his marriage was going to be able to stand up to his time in jail . |
| 9 | Feeling somewhat naked in the bitter winter 's chill , he had decided to pitch up to his shirt maker in Jermyn Street , his hatter in St James 's and his tailor in Savile Row to deck himself out in a manner which Solomon in all his glory would have found intimidating . |
| 10 | I think we all struggled to come up to his level . ’ |
| 11 | He was just like he was in the very early days ; he asked us to come out to his house and have dinner . |
| 12 | He closed the curtains and I waited for him to come out to his car . |
| 13 | Their only son , also Philip , decided to come back to his mother 's home to live . |
| 14 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 15 | Curzon had little need to spell out to his contemporaries the commercial and strategic dangers of such a scheme . |
| 16 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 17 | In this case , he wakes up in D10+10 rounds , although he takes another 10 rounds to come fully to his senses after being awakened . |
| 18 | It can also enliven many subjects and you can use a child 's interest and enjoyment of drawing and Painting to carry through to his enjoyment of another subject . |
| 19 | Behaving like that , he can hardly be surprised if walkers are tempted to march on to his land in the height of the season playing the bagpipes and accompanied by a 70-strong male voice choir . |
| 20 | When she was in her room , when The Bar was closed , she had a recurring fantasy in which Boy 's black hair was long enough to reach down to his waist . |
| 21 | She probably expected him to nip off to his gunsmith , buy an AK-47 assault rifle , and bomb down to Southend to take reprisals . |
| 22 | If GM 's allegations force Mr Lopez to retire early to his native Spain , he should find plenty of consulting work there . |
| 23 | After a long day at the office Richard likes nothing more than to drive home to his little pad in Huntley for a quiet night in with 21 year old , Sarah . |
| 24 | Then he turned — so Shiona thought — to go off to his own room . |
| 25 | And was to remain so — if truth is to be told — until the early dawn of the following day when Morse left her to walk slowly to his bachelor flat — only a short distance away up the Banbury Road — bareheaded in the beating rain which an hour since had obliquely streaked the windows of Sheila Williams 's front bedroom . |
| 26 | He did something technical on it , and suddenly his attention seemed to revert entirely to his exhibition . |
| 27 | Almost everything is worth saying , some of it is fine and perceptive but the notion of less is more seems to apply more to his art than his writings . |
| 28 | The kitchen clock read six thirty , plenty of time to walk home to his mother 's cottage for a wash and a bit of breakfast . |
| 29 | The contradictions were beginning : a man almost more famous than his work , his best work largely ignored , and expected to play up to his own eight by ten . |
| 30 | " No , but a husband should not have to look up to his bride . " |