Example sentences of "way [adv] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Frankie felt his face redden and his cheeks begin to burn all the way up to his scalp .
2 His plight went all the way up to his general , who was in the palace .
3 Wycliffe , unsettled in his mind , made a broad detour on the way back to his hotel .
4 On the way back to his conversation the barman punched a button on the television and suddenly they were in Texas , where folk lived and loved fit to bust and discussed it all in idiomatic but poorly synchronized Italian .
5 He used to be chauffeur-driven to market and one evening , when returning via Lower Road , Bemerton , on the way back to his home at Donhead , saw a small child in the water , being swept downstream by the fast-flowing River Nadder .
6 Angus had been to the town and he made his way back to his cottage along the shore .
7 BORIS BECKER blasted his way back to his booming best last night in a stunning defeat of his long-time Wimbledon rival Stefan Edberg .
8 Finally he gave up the attempt , and took the most direct way back to his house .
9 On his way back to his office , Patterson caught my eye and without breaking his stride , he tapped his wristwatch ( I put odds on a Rolex ) and held up five fingers .
10 Silence in the car on the way back to his place and the act of love in the hour of dusk .
11 He carried a piece of chalk with him , marking the walls with a secret sign so he would know the way back to his dormitory .
12 He put his hands quickly in his pockets , bowed his head , and made his way sideways to his place at table .
13 Quickly , Craig made his way upstairs to his brother 's room .
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