Example sentences of "[adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 2 | Her eyes flew suddenly to his . |
| 3 | Dr Neil sat her down in a chair opposite to his , and drew out the permanently set-up board on which she had frequently seen him working out problems . |
| 4 | Unselfconscious of his near-nakedness , he reached down to his carelessly heaped clothing and extracted his shirt from it . |
| 5 | Nobody wanted to stroke a Gnome , except perhaps another Gnome , He thought he might just have a word with Caspar to see if Fenella could be brought along to his , Inchbad 's , bed that very night . |
| 6 | At the least , Swegen 's victories are likely to have owed something not only to his doubtless considerable abilities as a commander , but also to an administration capable of utilising resources effectively and controlling the country in his absence . |
| 7 | ‘ Those who followed his career in television , from the role of humble assistant film editor , up through the features department of Granada Television , through to his incredibly successful period as editor of the BBC magazine programme , Holiday '76 , knew him to be resourceful , keen , and deeply aware , not only of the problems of travel — his chosen speciality — but also-of such things as cuisine and interior design . ’ |
| 8 | Not that Crispin was a weak man , but he was a very busy one , and had to be content to leave the management of their joint lives largely to his highly capable wife . |
| 9 | The feel of her body close to his in the carriage made him want to hold her , and he was tempted to cover her attractive though work-worn hand with his . |
| 10 | The girl was leaning on the car door , her face unnervingly close to his . |
| 11 | Her face bent close to his . |
| 12 | She put her head close to his . |
| 13 | She looked up at him and her mouth , already close to his , moved closer , seemed to falter , then moved closer and they kissed . |
| 14 | He slid back beneath the covers , hugging the woman 's body close to his , his arm around her waist , and fell into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 15 | He died 4 December 1304 at his manor at Wolvesey , close to his newly founded college dedicated to St Elizabeth of Hungary , and was buried on the north side of the choir of his cathedral church . |
| 16 | ‘ You brute ! ’ she whispered , her lips unbearably close to his . |
| 17 | His hand slid down over her back , his fingers splaying out over the firm swell of her bottom , pulling her body closer still to his . |
| 18 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |
| 19 | He or she is the ‘ fairy godmother ’ of the force , the suspect 's friend , and the person the Act expects will stand up to his or her ( often more senior ) colleagues if there is anything amiss : a dramatic invitation to insubordinated heroics . |
| 20 | Here she raised her square white face up to his and sought his eyes . |
| 21 | Delaney straightened , took her chin and gently turned her face back up to his . |
| 22 | Nobody lives up to his or her billing . |
| 23 | I put my face up to his . |
| 24 | I put my hand up to his . |
| 25 | Susan felt the gesture as if it had barely lapsed — felt his hand on the nape of her neck , the gentle pull that turned her face up to his — and she cried out , almost as if she hoped to be heard . |
| 26 | She looked at his fine , thin hands , the turned wrists where there were fair hairs on the brown skin , and put her face up to his . |
| 27 | Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd say a year or two at the most , ’ Belinda put in. — When Tom whispered , ‘ As long as that ? ’ in her ear so that only she could hear , she turned her face up to his for his kiss and blessed Deana Davenport and her ill-natured tongue from the bottom of her heart . |
| 29 | His eyes were a deep , dark grey , almost drugged , she saw as he turned her face up to his , and she guessed her own face must reflect the same emotions . |
| 30 | There was something in his tone that brought her eyes up to his in a look of vibrant anger . |