Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun sg] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines . |
| 2 | Despite pleas from his mother , Jackie was next to try his hand at the sport . |
| 3 | Isabelle and Eric 's idea of a good night is to listen to music together or for Eric to write his poetry at the coffee table . |
| 4 | ‘ I promise you , Ranulf , I will think on the matter , ’ Athelstan replied , trying to hide his amusement at the thought of St Erconwald 's full of tarry-hooded rat-catchers , all looking like Ranulf . |
| 5 | In 1989 , Kennard was invited by the United Nations to exhibit his work at the Palais des Nations in Geneva as part of the United Nations Disarmament Week , and as a follow-up to this event , the Imperial War Museum has also mounted a show . |
| 6 | What numbers must Pete set to fire his Scope at a TRAIN ? |
| 7 | North Wales MP John Marek is to meet Home Office minister Lord Ferrers next week to express his concern at the length of time the North Wales child abuse inquiry is taking and the fact that no outside police force is overseeing it . |
| 8 | It is worth noting that , though Professor Hoskins points to John Clare as almost the only rural poet to express his dislike at the destruction of his native heaths , William Barnes wrote in a very similar vein of Dorset . |
| 9 | He was advised not to overstay his tenure at the head of Esso in unusual circumstances . |
| 10 | ONE of Scottish accountancy 's best-known names is to leave his firm at the end of September . |
| 11 | Then Drew decided to leave his job at the factory . |
| 12 | It was a kind of refrain that seemed to mark his life at the moment . |
| 13 | He has never ceased to use his career at the Met as a touchstone for such later projects as editor-in-chief of Connoisseur Magazine and several ‘ inside scoop ’ books on the art world ranging from Tutankhamen : The Untold Story to his early years as a curator of the Met 's medieval department and his purchase of the ‘ Bury St Edmunds Cross ’ ( King of the Confessors ) . |
| 14 | If a customer was unaware of the need to provide variation margin from time to time and had insufficient available funds to meet margin calls , then he may be forced to liquidate his position at a loss even though , had the contract been allowed to run to maturity , it may have closed at a profit . |
| 15 | With Gorbachev consistently refusing this summons , despite a 100-rouble fine , the Court had then apparently imposed an effective ban on his travelling abroad , by requesting the Foreign and Security Ministries to ensure his appearance at the hearing . |
| 16 | He was also given three-month sentences for failing to keep his vehicle at the scene of a crash and for failing to give information concerning the accident to the gardai . |
| 17 | Extraordinary embassies of an essentially ceremonial kind , so frequent in the past , involving the sending of a great aristocrat on a mission of congratulation or condolence or to represent his sovereign at a coronation ceremony , were now becoming rare . |
| 18 | Lacking both a solid social base and the support of a unified party in a fragmented Congress , Fujimori forged close ties with the army to sustain his administration at the expense of increasingly alienating the other armed services and the national military police force . |
| 19 | And Goldberg , drawing his pad towards him : The very words he used to excuse his behaviour at the wedding . |
| 20 | Having fought to overcome his grief at the loss of the child , the object of this critical review had , in fact , sought every means he dared to stop the great gap it opened in the domestic life of the Rectory . |
| 21 | Under CA 1985 , s317 a director of a company who is in any way , whether directly or indirectly , interested in a contract or proposed contract with his company is required to declare his interest at the meeting of the board . |
| 22 | Mr Major is by no means out of the woods , and must fight to defend his leadership at a crisis Cabinet meeting to be called early today . |
| 23 | Tommy broke away from the group to join his friend at the bar . |
| 24 | After treatment the mountaineer will be on the next flight home to join his girlfriend at the couple 's home in Radley . |
| 25 | Brian had raced from Devon to Heathrow by helicopter , planning to take a Concorde flight to join his family at the hospital . |
| 26 | Although the recruiter had obviously bathed , he still exuded the faint mustiness of the habitual opium smoker as he pressed past Duclos to take his place at the breakfast table . |
| 27 | The fee is two hundred and fifty thousand pounds and Mutch , who 'll sign tomorrow , is expected to make his debut at the County Ground against Liverpool on Sunday … |
| 28 | PAT CASH , the former Wimbledon champion out of competition for six months after surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon , plans to make his comeback at the Hopman Cup in Perth over Christmas . |
| 29 | He went off to a club where they wanted him to prove his age at the door ; it never crossed his mind that anyone else was under age . |
| 30 | That has whetted Graham 's appetite for more honours — and he accepts he 'll have to keep filling the Highbury trophy room if he is to guarantee his future at the club . |