Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early morning mist was lifting above the Great Stukeley lanes to reveal a glorious day as Mr Major arrived with his wife to vote at the village hall . |
| 2 | The House of Lords held , in effect , that since the applicant was arguing that he had a contractual right under his lease to remain at the lower rent , he was asserting private law rights and so could raise the defence in the possession proceedings in the County Court and did not have to raise it by means of an AJR . |
| 3 | The Prince muttered , ‘ Bless you , ’ then stood in his stirrups to gaze at the Lancers through a telescope . |
| 4 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 5 | He displayed his contempt for Hollywood at the awards ceremony by refusing to accept the gold statuette and sending an Indian girl in his stead to protest at the way the movie industry had treated the Red Man . |
| 6 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 7 | ‘ I expected no better , ’ said Herluin bitterly , and took the broken box in his hands to stare at the damage . |
| 8 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 9 | The irony is primarily at the expense of Mrs Moreen ( a lady less refined than she would like to appear ) , and secondarily at the expense of Pemberton ( whom we smile at and with over his impotence to get at the information he wants ) . |
| 10 | I intercepted Edouard on his way to work at the hotel and got the truth out of him . |
| 11 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 12 | During the worst weeks of the Verdun fighting , de Castelnau impressed Colonel Repington ( the elephantine Times correspondent who , in between the purveyance of social tittle-tattle from one dining table to another , was a fairly astute military critic ) on his way to dine at the Ritz , with the words : ‘ Rather than accept slavery at German hands the French race would die upon the battlefield . ’ |
| 13 | His next film is a ‘ character mystery ’ — not a musical — about Weegee , the famous news photographer of the Depression years , named for his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime with a speed which suggested the use of an ouija board . |
| 14 | Mr Brocklebank , who had been sent by his wife to look at the house , reported back . |
| 15 | His black eyes flickered , and he drew the monk over by his sleeve to look at the pageant more closely . |