Example sentences of "[verb] at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I sleep at his house , he sleeps there . |
| 2 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |
| 3 | He would look at Harry , the picture of health and happiness and , while marvelling at his steady uncomplicated progress , suddenly think of the child 's mother , a travesty of the woman he had once known , suffering , it would seem , from chronic post-natal depression , so much so that , on Winifred Shalcross 's advice , a second specialist had been called in . |
| 4 | In response to increasing demands for expert self-awareness and self-evaluation in meeting the demands of the new curriculum , the new organization of school government and the new involvement of parents , a head 's disposable time could be better spent in grappling at his or her own level with those organizational , philosophic and marketing questions which lie behind the giving of a professional account of a school . |
| 5 | Even then he did not fight to recover his own hold on safety , but strained at his slipping grip on the man , dragging him outwards . |
| 6 | The spaceman twiddled at his chest . |
| 7 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 8 | After reading of Helen Wright 's good fortune in September Amicus Ivan McNeill wrote to tell me of his luck in winning a three day family trip to Euro Disney in a free draw organised at his local Esso petrol station in Ballymena , County Antrim . |
| 9 | The carp feeding around the inlet nudged at his fingers . |
| 10 | On 18 November 1699 King William III dined at his house in Richmond and , on 23 June 1700 , in recognition of his services , the king knighted him at Hampton Court . |
| 11 | " I wo n't do it again , " he promised at his trial . |
| 12 | But she terrified him , because he wanted her and he liked having that grave face near him , and she was willing to have him even with the ghosts crowding at his shoulder . |
| 13 | He put his spurs to his horse , the dachshunds yapping at his heels , and galloped into the trees . |
| 14 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 15 | I saw Joe , of course , and remember laughing at his description of how Morgan Forster had been interviewed by Alfred C. Kinsey for his researches into Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male . |
| 16 | He doubled up laughing at his own joke . |
| 17 | She was laughing at his antics , but anxious lest he should be heard . |
| 18 | And he will rend the plans in twain , what with it being such a nice pub and all , and the lads not laughing at his poncey suit . |
| 19 | ‘ So I see , ’ she said , laughing at his sheepish small-boy expression . |
| 20 | Her shoulder was stinging , but Maria could n't help laughing at his effervescent antics . |
| 21 | Ana seemed to pick up the vibes very quickly and tagged along with Mitch , laughing at his humour , turning her head from time to time in Maggie 's direction as if she could hear steam coming from her ears . |
| 22 | I ca nt even remember what he was saying about other matches — I was laughing at his ‘ expert ’ comments too much . |
| 23 | Today , I was virtually sore laughing at his description of the immortal ‘ filling of the bath ’ problem . |
| 24 | ‘ Did I not say , Harry , that I 'd get it from you , and no other ? ’ said Isambard , still laughing at his stricken face . |
| 25 | The entry of his feast-day in eleventh-century church calendars indicates that he became fairly widely venerated , and miracles were occurring at his tomb in St Paul 's before the translation of his remains from London to Canterbury in 1023 . |
| 26 | He was educated at his father 's school , St George 's House , Everton , until , at the age of fifteen , of his own volition , he decided to pursue a commercial career . |
| 27 | Meredith bristled at his rudeness and whirled around , hot with temper . |
| 28 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 29 | It slipped from the gunman 's hand , landing at his feet . |
| 30 | The hawk which Aldebrand carries upon his wrist is trained to swoop at his aggressor and attack them with its beak and claws . |