Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good working relationship also enhances an officer 's intelligence system , more effectively bringing to his attention knowledge of pollutions for which the discharger or his neighbours may be responsible . |
| 2 | The tall , lanky merchant was nervous and ill at ease , his hand constantly fluttering to his mouth or patting his greasy hair . |
| 3 | he was merely pandering to his feelings did nothing for the children he left behind . |
| 4 | Not common or garden holes , not those bodily orifices so absorbing to his contemporaries . |
| 5 | To the end , he is merely listening to his subjects , respecting without judging them and keeping us , as readers , flush against them , indulging in their foibles and sharing their fantasies . |
| 6 | The altruistic model , where the solicitor acts only according to his instructions in the client 's best interests , is the source of the profession 's ‘ charismatic authority ’ . |
| 7 | As a way of dealing with a crisis this seemed repugnant — a bit like a child only turning to his parents when he or she wants something . |
| 8 | It was run on a shoestring at the best of times and Kelly was merely adding to his problems . |
| 9 | Alexander Macdonald had clearly abandoned much of that hospitable tradition , perhaps owing to his embrace of southern education , or perhaps as a reaction to the affection in which his late brother had been held . |
| 10 | The Emperor , who incidentally had wanted to pardon Orsini and his accomplice , only yielding to his ministers ' demand for execution when they pointed out that innocent people had been killed , tried to repair the damage done to the Entente . |
| 11 | , he was only referring to his fear of Jack . |
| 12 | Ronny 's not gon na go anyway nattering to his mates I 've got ta get a I 've got ta go and get a to go with it two and ten eights fours in that seven , four seven and four seven , four , six six , five , ten , ace jack queen , king , how about that ? |
| 13 | The Chancellor — clearly just clinging to his job — told Ministers at a Cabinet meeting yesterday that they must slash millions off their budgets . |
| 14 | He was just warming to his task when Reed sold him out . |
| 15 | He had closed his eyes again and was once more listening to his voices . |
| 16 | He would ride the boy on his shoulders or shove him roughly aside according to his mood . |
| 17 | His arrival in Bond Street with chips of frozen snow still clinging to his person recalled that epic picture of polar heroism , ‘ A very gallant gentleman ’ , in which Captain Oates staggers out into the blizzard |
| 18 | His arrival in Bond Street with chips of frozen snow still clinging to his person recalled that epic picture of polar heroism , ‘ A very gallant gentleman ’ , in which Captain Oates staggers out into the blizzard . |
| 19 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 20 | Mike Laister was still clinging to his point of view . |
| 21 | The physics master , long after John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton had successfully split the atom , was still dictating to his pupils , ‘ Matter can neither be created nor destroyed ’ . |
| 22 | Shaking a little at first but gradually warming to his theme , the sacked Chancellor dealt John Major a devastating blow . |
| 23 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
| 24 | Two minutes later Müncheberg claimed another over St. Paul 's Bay , the pilot of this also taking to his parachute . |
| 25 | But if within modern languages ( to keep , for the moment , to this example ) a candidate for the GCSE were permitted to offer , as part of the evidence that went towards his certificate , the grades he had achieved in tests , starting from the most elementary and progressing upwards according to his ability , the ‘ differentiation ’ problem would be virtually solved . |
| 26 | Fernie was now talking to his wife , rapidly , with just a hint of pleading . |
| 27 | He was not to make another attempt , later tragically falling to his death from nearby Cousin 's Buttress . |
| 28 | George 's insobriety was disturbing and even wounding to his friends . |
| 29 | ‘ Come down to the path , ’ said the enthusiast , abruptly returning to his passion as soon as the distractions withdrew , ‘ and I 'll show you something . |
| 30 | The count had a penchant for asking various well-known composers to write chamber works for him — for which they were handsomely paid — and then pretending to his friends that he himself was the composer . |