Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was staring and trembling and his great-size seemed only to add to his air of stricken misery . |
| 32 | The affair seemed only to add to his status as folk hero . |
| 33 | Grunte , who had no idea what the Government 's policy was , or even if it had one , charmingly admitted to his ignorance and invited another question . |
| 34 | Luke 's age would only add to his glamour . |
| 35 | Abberley alone listens to his radio earphones . |
| 36 | Yesterday , having recovered sufficiently to return to his hotel , he attempted to withdraw from international judo by offering his resignation . |
| 37 | , he was only referring to his fear of Jack . |
| 38 | He was run down and killed , but he was so attached to his job that he still wants to keep his eye on his old work place . |
| 39 | We have all listened to his speech with great interest . |
| 40 | An author obviously dedicated to his art and expert enough to share his knowledge with the world has given us what should be the standard on the line which will stand the test of time . |
| 41 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 42 | No doubt he would like to be a Muslim with four wives all dedicated to his comfort . |
| 43 | On the fourth floor is Mozart House , a room which features 3,000–4,000 Mozart CDs , portraits of the maestro on the wall , and an Empire couch to sit on to listen to his music being played continually . |
| 44 | Although he was opposed to any plan to assassinate Hitler , he had been involved with the German resistance movement for some years , treading a dangerous path that was eventually to lead to his downfall and death . |
| 45 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 46 | Both Mr. Workman and Miss Davies deposed to the fact that Mr. Whitehead , Mr. Bell 's solicitor , accepted that the matter could properly be adjourned until Monday , 19 February and that Mr. Whitehead did not object to his client being remanded in custody until that date . |
| 47 | Gwendolen sitting next to him did not object to his silence . |
| 48 | Nor can Erich Honecker now ask the most important guest not to come to his party . |
| 49 | Vincent , baffled and angered by his parents ' pessimism , lost his temper when they told him not to write to his uncle and aunt in Amsterdam . |
| 50 | Kemp 's difficulty in defining ‘ science ’ and ‘ art ’ is not confined to his discussion of the earlier period . |
| 51 | But Dicey 's influence is not confined to his method . |
| 52 | Coleman 's lecturing skills were not confined to his College students . |
| 53 | She would not yield to his curiosity . |
| 54 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 55 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 56 | It is significant , for example , that Nizan does not refer to his literature as " socialist realist " , but rather as " revolutionary " . |
| 57 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 58 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 59 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
| 60 | But the principle to which we have adverted was not presented to his mind in its simple form ; and the point certainly did not undergo much consideration . |