Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks clutched at his chest and slowly tottered to his knees . |
| 2 | Naturally he was eager to do business , and so turned to his training officer for assistance . |
| 3 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 4 | Why we may go walks together , and not go to his house where there is all his family I simply can not imagine . |
| 5 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 6 | He received the homage of the members of his household before going to pray at the oratory of St Laurence , which was filled with relics of the saints , and finally retiring to his private apartments . |
| 7 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 8 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 9 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 10 | ‘ Ross … ! ’ she cried , throwing herself into his arms and tearfully clinging to his broad shoulders . |
| 11 | Why not , since some of her Midland concerts would be advertised in the local press , and inevitably come to his notice ? |
| 12 | There , whilst waiting , he had made the mistake of sitting down , and now discovered to his chagrin that when he wanted to stand again his legs would not respond . |
| 13 | George 's insobriety was disturbing and even wounding to his friends . |
| 14 | The Cherokee pilot saw the Cheetah pilot slumped in his cockpit and immediately went to his aid . |
| 15 | Alfonso , on the other hand , though go-ahead and energetic , was of a docile nature and readily deferred to his parents and his eldest sister Urraca , so that he became the favourite son and developed all the traits of a spoilt child . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Peacock scored twice to accelerate Charlton 's slide down the table and then apologised to his dad Keith , Charlton 's reserve team coach . |
| 18 | He lifted the curtain to his lips , kissed it tenderly , and then turned to his audience . |
| 19 | When not working , Reay 's main interest is snooker of which he is ‘ very , very keen ’ and then referring to his colleague , Keith Smith , he said , for the benefit of the Glenpatrick News that Keith ‘ loves cream cakes . ’ |
| 20 | As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room . |
| 21 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |
| 22 | There was little reaction , as Shill partially awoke , turned over , snorted and then returned to his deep sleep . |
| 23 | PC Laney made a brief note , and then returned to his tour of duty . |
| 24 | He tensed himself , joyful and afraid , preparing to turn , bow his head and then drop to his knees in proper adoration . |
| 25 | Applying Phipps he would have been guilty if he had drove to the agreed destination and then driven to his true destination . |
| 26 | He remembered , but too late , and then stumbled to his feet too quickly , almost knocking over the tiny wine-table which stood by his side . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever style the man uses , the woman gets the message very clearly : It 's up to her to figure out how to keep him happy and how to adjust to his everchanging demands . |
| 28 | Philby remained bitter towards Burgess , whose defection had thrown suspicion on him and ultimately led to his unmasking . |
| 29 | The inability of Mr Frohnmayer to come down squarely on one side of this debate or the other plagued his early tenure , and ultimately contributed to his vulnerability when Mr Buchanan stepped up his attack . |
| 30 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |