Example sentences of "[vb pp] at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The carp feeding around the inlet nudged at his fingers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Shooting quiz : Three men are being questioned after a Catholic was shot and wounded at his west Belfast home in an area where Loyalist killers have staged a series of hit-and-run attacks . |
| 6 | The equipment has been installed at his home in Langley Drive , Norton , Malton . |
| 7 | Tears pricked at his eyes . |
| 8 | As he tried to leave the field the ball suddenly dropped at his feet and he attempted a long-range crossfield pass aimed at Gordon Strachan . |
| 9 | The boy dropped at his feet , in a single , total fall without a movement after , like a stone . |
| 10 | Her eyes had flown to meet his , then dropped at his sarcastic comment as her cheeks became stained with an ugly red . |
| 11 | Interviewed at his Paddington studios , Sweet 's wife , Audrey , could suggest no motive for the killing . |
| 12 | Part I features seven neon murals , texts or figurative compositions , a new departure for the artist although they were previewed at his exhibition at the Fruitmarket in 1991 . |
| 13 | Each had a heavy satchel , a pick , and a knife sheathed at his belt . |
| 14 | Three nights she had been imprisoned here — the last one without food or water , since the guard had not come at his usual time . |
| 15 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 16 | He was first employed by the Cecils at Hatfield prior to his becoming arboriculturalist to George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , and then , in 1630 , ‘ Keeper of his Majesty 's Gardens , Vines and Silkworms ’ , being succeeded at his death in 1638 by his son , John . |
| 17 | Then took one hand out again and picked at his neck . |
| 18 | He belched loudly when the account was finished and picked at his teeth with a sliver of wood . |
| 19 | Duncan , not the greatest fan of junk food , had picked at his while the policeman enthusiastically devoured his . |
| 20 | He went fiery red , hands clenched at his sides . |
| 21 | Then he turned and hurried on , his fists clenched at his sides , his face the colour of summer . |
| 22 | The little man was standing in the middle of the Bridge terminus , head cocked to one side as if he could hear something , fists clenched at his sides . |
| 23 | Chen pulled up sharply , almost thudding into Karr who stood there , his hands clenched at his sides , his great chest rising and falling heavily as he stared down at the three prone gangsters . |
| 24 | His voice was low and controlled , but his hands were clenched at his sides and his glittering eyes would have frozen hell-fire . |
| 25 | The word ‘ Emerald ’ caught at his eyes . |
| 26 | The drift was thickly overgrown , a dank tunnel out of whose bushy sides the tendrils of brambles and briar roses caught at his clothes . |
| 27 | Holly pushed his feet beneath the steel plate and the wind caught at his socks and trousers and drove a channelled wind against his legs and he cursed the awkwardness of his overcoat , and his feet kicked in the space like the feet of a hanging man . |
| 28 | She swallowed hard on a rising sense of panic , and caught at his hand instinctively . |
| 29 | ‘ Anything but , ’ he replied , as if remembering her dainty appetite when she had dined at his home . |
| 30 | This led to the belief that Christ 's divine nature originated at his birth rather than at his baptism . |