Example sentences of "to his [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 2 | Her father feared for her reason , and left the boat telling to his fellow fishermen he would remain at home that day . |
| 3 | As he turned and handed the binoculars to his elder brother he frowned in what he hoped was a manly , intent manner and tried to make his voice sound casual . |
| 4 | From his dark expertly cut hair to his hand-made shoes he was the epitome of the new young man . |
| 5 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 6 | It was sent by a sad Manc git using my Id cos he 's too scared to use his own — if anyone wishes to reply to his infantile shite they can send them to him at the following address … |
| 7 | To his mild surprise he found himself confronted by rows of peers determined to fight on behalf of the brewing industry , a fearsomely effective lobby . |
| 8 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 9 | He recorded over 200 baptisms , including those of Lawyer and Rotten Belly , though some whispered that due to his failing eyesight he baptised certain individuals more than once . |
| 10 | To his great credit he comes up with no easy answers , but nor does he give in to glib despair . |
| 11 | To his great relief he found that the pains in his head had almost gone and that he could now move his left leg , albeit with some difficulty . |
| 12 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 13 | To his great sorrow he could never recall his mother . |
| 14 | From his bowler to his riding-mac to his moustache to his highly-polished shoes he embodies spleen and dodginess . |
| 15 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 16 | Joe and Pip 's relationship suffers dramatically because as Pip becomes more accustomed to his new lifestyle he puts Joe and his old life further and further behind him . |
| 17 | Chapman brought to his new job his already extensive experience of industrial management , and Langley , reading between the lines , realized that such a dynamic personality would not remain an assistant for long . |
| 18 | J. Roberts regretted that due to his many commitments he had not been able to play as active a role in the Society during the past year as he would have wished . |
| 19 | In a prefatory note to his first novel he told his readers , ‘ Except the hero and heroine , and those points of the work which supply the slight plot of it , as a novel the work itself is materially true , especially in the narrative of sea-adventure , most of which did ( to the best of our recollection ) occur to the author . ’ |
| 20 | However , in a private call to his senior officers he urged them to fight on . |
| 21 | Last night had been wonderful ; but then , every time her body played host to his thick prick it was sheer heaven . |
| 22 | In the brief walk from No. 22 to his own flat he had pulled from the back of his mind a conviction that had been forming there without much conscious thought on his part , just something he knew . |
| 23 | The egoist might concede that , since in choosing means to his own ends he has to try to predict others ' behaviour , he does find it a practical necessity at times to imagine from their viewpoints at the cost of transiently feeling himself moved in altruistic directions . |
| 24 | I recall Hamish in one of his writings saying that as he walked along on the way to his next objective he was reading a paperback novel — how more blinkered than that can you get ! ? |
| 25 | From his tweed jacket to his patterned brogues he looked the part perfectly : not the usual designer mix from expensive shops in Milan or Rome , but the real thing , as plain and heavy as Zen imagined the English climate , character and cuisine to be . |
| 26 | To his natural wit we can add the smell of fame . |
| 27 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |
| 28 | To his left wing he could see the great blackness of the Park , lit only occasionally by murky yellow lights . |
| 29 | To his left wing he made out a line of higher hills and headed for it . |
| 30 | But no amount of camp humour could banish the bitter awareness that every time he gave way to his sexual needs he became a criminal . |