Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , too , was runner-up Chris Platts , who shot a fine final round 68 to finish two shots clear of David Jones , Roger Winchester — who did win his card at the Qualifying School — and local player S. Okpe . |
| 2 | ‘ Kick me again , ’ said Georgiades , keeping his voice at the gentle , conversational level , ‘ and I will kick your balls so hard that they will fly out of your backside . ’ |
| 3 | He turned his head away , and as the light caught his face at a certain angle Nenna realised in terror that he was right and that he would never get anywhere . |
| 4 | The fighter usually places his body at a 45-degree angle and distributes his weight equally on both feet , with the knees slightly bent . |
| 5 | Charlie and his sister walked slowly from shop window to shop window , and he was unable to hide his excitement at every new discovery he came across . |
| 6 | Failing to hide his irascibility at the belligerent critic , Lord Ridley adopted a tactic other directors may be well advised to follow to silence unruly shareholders . |
| 7 | Another bogus defector was code-named Fedora , possibly in reality Viktor Lessiovski , who used his work at the United Nations as a cover . |
| 8 | Mr Redwood used his debut at the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen at the weekend to ram home this message , which will have special meaning for Welsh-speaking communities in North Wales . |
| 9 | Guinness tried his hand at the new Porter with rather more success than his fellow Dublin brewers . |
| 10 | Some might wonder , ’ he grated , ‘ whether Blake will now be able to set his prices at a level low enough to undermine Lynx . |
| 11 | ‘ My conclusion , ’ Mr Davison told his audience at the recent Irish Institute conference in Galway , ‘ is that no rational person would contemplate a merger between the Big Six . ’ |
| 12 | He told his audience at the French Academy of Political and Moral Sciences : ‘ One of the joys for me of being in France is that you have a particularly strong sense of the ultimate cost to the human spirit of unrelenting migration from the countryside to the big cities . ’ |
| 13 | Details of Mr Gill 's golden retirement deal amazed his ex-colleagues at the white-collar Manufacturing , Science and Finance union . |
| 14 | He has met his brothers at the fair which accompanies the hiring but otherwise there has been no joy ; certainly nothing to bring to his wife , Emily , who has been driven up to the town and found refuge in the house of a local schoolmaster , Mr Stephens . |
| 15 | But having had his look at the outside Phar Lap returned to join the rest of the pack , and though he remained at the rear he was going very easily . |
| 16 | He turned his head at a slight tap on the door . |
| 17 | Presenting his constitution at a huge outdoor rally in Paris on 4 September 1958 , de Gaulle echoed this advice . |
| 18 | He had had to conceal his revulsion at the creased and thumbed photographs handed round from desk to desk at school — those grey girls with their balloon breasts and gaping hairy forks . |
| 19 | In 1851 Harris showed his facsimiles at the Great Exhibition ; his own brief account of his technique and early work appears in the 1852 Reports by the Juries . |
| 20 | ‘ He shook his stick at the old man , who stepped back in surprise . |
| 21 | It seemed to Charles , waiting his turn at the public telephone box on the corner by his billet , that they were never going to be able to meet again . |
| 22 | JIM BAXTER INSPECTS HIS KIT AT THE BLACK WATCH BARRACKS IN PERTH |
| 23 | Although in prose — as one says , perhaps too much influenced by the conventions of the comedies — this is one of the most serious scenes in the play ( 91–229 ) , and when the soldiers have left the King ascends to verse for what is to me the most deeply felt speech of all : In his own persona the King speaks verse , entering on to a prose-scene between Fluellen and Gower to express his anger at the French murder of the luggage-minders , and continuing in verse to Fluellen ( IV.vii.55–118 ) . |
| 24 | The war on the Western Front in 1917 — 18 had turned Chesterton into an alcoholic , a condition which he finally controlled in the later 1930s , thanks to the generosity of Mosley who financed his cure at a special clinic in Germany . |
| 25 | He landed at Durlston and expressed his delight at the beautiful scenery and pure air . |
| 26 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 27 | Dr Peter Clarke , SCOTVEC 's Chairman , expressed his pleasure at the continued growth in National Certificate in typical style at a recent conference . |
| 28 | Writing as he was in the 1930s , he expressed his pleasure at the extensive documentation and reference material available to the student of art , instancing the growth of libraries and art historical teaching . |
| 29 | Sir Joseph Banks had pioneered the effort to transplant useful species from one area to another , and hoped to use his position at the royal botanical gardens at Kew to further the interests of Britain 's overseas colonies . |
| 30 | Isay pushed Riven aside and stood holding his staff at the ready as his countrymen approached . |