Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes his route to the nearest safe place involved scrambling over loose rock , or entailed ladder climbing to escape from a stope , with his only source of light a guttering candle held in the hand , or stuck to his hat with a blob of clay . |
| 2 | By a strange twist of fate , the first Chilean to welcome Valenzuela to his new home in France was Castro , a ‘ Mirista ’ who was captured in broad daylight and stripped to his underwear back in December 1974 , while Valenzuela stood guard at the corner . |
| 3 | But the eternal and temporal worlds met in the maintenance of rights given to the saints and committed to his guardianship . |
| 4 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 5 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | The occasion will be marked by a series of exhibitions and other events taking place in Spain and abroad during the next nine months and related to his career , achievement and influence . |
| 7 | Will Douglas rose from his seat , and bowed to his uncle — and perforce all others must do likewise . |
| 8 | Indeed , rumours about Ruthven were rife — how he was a warlock because he was left-handed and talked to his cat . |
| 9 | The meeting at Chevening , the Kent home taken from Sir Geoffrey Howe and handed to his successor as Foreign Secretary , John Major , was also a stock-taking exercise . |
| 10 | The highlight of this sale of French and continental furniture and tapestries is to be found among pieces put up for sale by Lord Elgin and supplied to his ancestor Thomas , the Seventh Earl , by Martin-Eloy Lignereux . |
| 11 | ‘ Pleasure , ’ said Joe , and crossed to his bedroom . |
| 12 | Old Harry James had straightened up from his gardening as they passed , and called to his wife , standing in the window . |
| 13 | Mr Edgar put his head out of the window and called to his wife , ‘ Do n't stand there in the cold , love ! |
| 14 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
| 15 | And found to his annoyance that he was grinding his teeth . |
| 16 | Rex took another step backwards and found to his unhappiness that he had backed himself neatly into a well-barred shop doorway . |
| 17 | So he had her captured and brought to his palace . |
| 18 | An officer of the secret police began his interrogation of the anthropologist who had been denounced and brought to his office : ‘ Now , tell me about my genealogy — you collected it from my father last week . ’ |
| 19 | And been less of a direct rival to her Dad , and all , McLeish thought , and stuck to his line . |
| 20 | Detective Constable David Hemes told the inquest that Mr Ryder had left his home and gone to his chemist 's shop in Old Town Lane , Formby , and taken a bottle of barbiturates . |
| 21 | She did not much like his way of kissing , for it was hot and suffocating , and she was glad when he stopped , and released her , and reverted to his grip upon her knee . |
| 22 | He sighed deeply , switched off the light and returned to his bed . |
| 23 | He pushed the pad aside and returned to his typing . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , be your age , ’ said Joe , and returned to his work . |
| 25 | ‘ Hello ’ he said , and returned to his work . |
| 26 | He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea . |
| 27 | ‘ Possibly , ’ said the barman , and returned to his newspaper . |
| 28 | He hoped that the camera would be found and returned to his wife Tamara , 30 . |
| 29 | When John Mowlem retired in 1845 and returned to his birthplace , the railway had only reached Southampton . |
| 30 | Tam lost interest and returned to his basket . |