Example sentences of "[adv] attach to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was run down and killed , but he was so attached to his job that he still wants to keep his eye on his old work place . |
| 2 | No longer attached to his body , Atrimonides ' hand drifted free of the hatch coaming . |
| 3 | The electrodes for that are only linked up at intervals , of course , since they have to be directly attached to his scalp . |
| 4 | Darren had become much more attached to his mother and she was showing much more affection towards him . |
| 5 | His impulse to clutch at her and lift her skirt and dabble with finger and thumb in her recesses led to a quick shame , and he was so appalled that he could not push her from him either but let her , still attached to his hand , mutter her compliments , in disjointed phrases falling pell mell . |
| 6 | The electrodes permanently attached to his scalp — we need those to take the frequent and essential measurements of electric impulses produced by his brain — are also imperceptible to him , since the resilience of his mattress ensures he feels no pressure from them at all . |
| 7 | The owner , Professor Wotherspoon , although a self-avowed traditionalist , was also strongly attached to his creature comforts . |
| 8 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 9 | THE pressures on the conductor Mark Wigglesworth seem considerable — his career constantly compared to the early days of Simon Rattle , and the rising star tag firmly attached to his travelling bag . |
| 10 | However , I was always quite relieved when he resumed a proper attitude in the back of the cockpit and was safely attached to his parachute and using the Sutton harness . |