Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] at his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In charge of the Moose Jaw R.C.M.P. contingent was Sergeant Frank Doherty , and , as police reporter , I regularly called at his office for news . |
| 2 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 3 | Usually he just sat at his desk and waited quietly for four o'clock to come , when he could go home . |
| 4 | He thus arrived at his city 's University in the Depression , well primed for encounters there with the suspect notions of Eliot , Pound and T E Hulme . |
| 5 | Shadows of it still remained at his trial , two years later ; although his lawyer had evidently advised him to tone down the certitude of righteousness , it would slip out . |
| 6 | For the first time in his life , he really looked at his son , weighing up this product of the first six months of marriage before disillusionment set in . |