Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to his [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ He still cuts instinctively inside to his left . |
| 3 | He pushed her down on to his bunk , pulling his duvet around her , then took a fresh towel and began to dry her hair . |
| 4 | In the ensuing chaos , six or seven pairs of hands grabbed Ferryman and pulled him down on to his bottom . |
| 5 | Then he felt his trousers being undone and her dark head slipped down on to his lap . |
| 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 | Despite the difficulties Frere was committed to his new life and regretted only that enthusiasm came less easily to his wife . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ali bent down close to his ear and whispered : ‘ You in pain ? ’ |
| 10 | Here things were much more to his taste . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A bird-watcher had climbed down there once , to get his binoculars , and the mud had sucked him in up to his waist . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Garry pushed his glasses higher on his nose and raising his hand as if he was starting a race , brought it down heavily to his side … |
| 17 | I went down again to his room to make sure he had n't returned in the night . |
| 18 | ‘ Either you tell me , or I 'll march right over to his room and ask him . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Fucking amazing , you can just ring right through to his office . |
| 21 | The sun was low in the sky somewhere away to his right , and the castle on the Mount was bathed in magical golden light . |
| 22 | Not altogether to his surprise , Edna seemed to have feelings very similar to his own about the matter . |
| 23 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 24 | Biggs rolled over on to his back and remained motionless for more than two minutes after referee Larry O'Connell had completed the count . |
| 25 | He grabbed him , flipping him over on to his back so that the gunman 's mouth and nostrils were clear of the sea . |
| 26 | Jack crawled under the table to pick it up , then wriggled over on to his back , catching sight of something . |
| 27 | He knelt down by Adam , turning him over on to his back . |
| 28 | She rolled him over on to his back and wiggled her fingers invitingly , offering to box , but he lay inert , front paws curled gently round her forefinger . |
| 29 | Niall rolled the man gently over on to his back , ripped open his shirt and placed an ear to his chest . |
| 30 | As she did so he moved over on to his back . |