Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 2 | In the course of his summing up to the jury , he stated : |
| 3 | Charles had never been carefree , never been allowed to be childish or make mistakes like his peers , never had friends to call on and pour his heart out to . |
| 4 | Then , very slowly and deliberately , Doyle tore the two halves of the photograph across and across , into a shower of tiny pieces that fell through his fingers on to the floor . |
| 5 | His snowdrops were already wilting like wax candles in the warmth of his hand , and as he copied the mourners ahead of him and stood up , one flower slipped between his fingers on to the rust-coloured floor . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope you 're not planning on detaining me in here for seven years ! ’ she managed to protest , her voice trailing into a breathless gasp as he slid his fingers up to her throat , and caressed the pulse throbbing at the base of her neck . |
| 7 | There was a glimmer of amusement in his dark eyes as he slid his fingers down to the pulse drumming wildly at the base of her throat . |
| 8 | As she did so , she saw her husband remove his hand from Felicity 's armpit and place his fingers daintily to his nose . |
| 9 | frank dropped his hands and would have fallen , had she not steadied him and guided his fingers back to the bandage . |
| 10 | The boy stretched his fingers out to their furthest limit and held his thumb back rigidly , at right-angles to his forefinger . |
| 11 | Lyfing of Crediton doubtless owed his advancement largely to the influence of his uncle Brihtwold of Cornwall and to his own services to Cnut during the 1027 pilgrimage to Rome . |
| 12 | But he had to play his part through to the end . |
| 13 | As her father began his fight back to health , Diana 's mother took a hand in guiding her career . |
| 14 | round about the first world war time , he used this sort of sort of pitching his tent up to the and staying there and learning their language and observing their rituals , getting to know them . |
| 15 | He gripped it with his hands , got his foot on to the latch , heaved up and rolled over the top . |
| 16 | Her fingers were gentle but firm , and he sprawled back on his elbows and watched her as she lifted his foot on to her lap and massaged all the tired muscles . |
| 17 | Flat road , no brakes , and he 's got his foot hard to the floor , it wo n't go any faster . |
| 18 | ‘ So Damon 's giving all his money away to charity , ’ retorts Marlon sardonically . |
| 19 | And of Katherine Hepburn : ‘ She ran the gamut of expressions from A to B. ’ One-liners that catch the eye include : The best play I ever slept through ; I 've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella ; I saw the play at a disadvantage — the curtain was up ; The scenery was beautiful but the actors got in front of it ; When Mr Wilbur calls his play Halfway to Hell , he underestimates the distance . ’ |
| 20 | His obstinacy up to now might be all bravado . |
| 21 | No French cantatas are as tonally wayward , although the keys chosen for the principal movements in the first book ( 1706 ) of Jean-Baptiste Stuck , one of the pioneers of the genre , and who claimed in his preface simply to be joining French words to Italian music , hint at a similar approach ( table 1 ) . |
| 22 | He set out his plans exclusively to TODAY after a BBC poll showed him ahead of the competition to take over as President of the Board of Trade . |
| 23 | This enigmatic man — one reluctant to disclose his plans even to his closest associates and so often the military miscalculator — in this instance judged the French national character correctly : if the Germans attacked Verdun , the French would resist . |
| 24 | With his plans close to being finalised , Peckham is diplomatic . |
| 25 | On 1 December Cumberland moved some of his cavalry forward to Congleton , from which they withdrew after confirming the presence of Lord George Murray 's troops , but this intelligence left the Duke more undecided than ever about the Jacobites ' real objective , as his private secretary admitted in a letter , dated 2 December 1745 , to London : |
| 26 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 27 | But Sisson , in addition to bringing his story up to date with a final chapter , interjects halfway through a lengthy segment on his war . |
| 28 | As he finished his pasta , Guido sat back in his seat , touching his napkin briefly to his lips . |
| 29 | He wheeled his bike round to the back . |
| 30 | As the queue starts to break up , the lanky guy sends his runner back to me . |