Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Already he sported a blond mustache that was a passable imitation of the older man 's , and he twisted a strand or two of it between finger and thumb as he shot a comic grimace of pain in Joseph 's direction to convey his discomfort at the extravagant declaration of faith in him . |
| 6 | He lingered to shine his lamp at the half-finished water colour in the window before turning at last into the alleyway leading to the churchyard . |
| 7 | During his convalescence he met the girl who was to become his wife at the local hunt ball and married her before returning to France . |
| 8 | He had been able to moisten his throat at the clear streams of water which crossed the track but the sustenance of ale or wine to which his great frame was accustomed was denied him and he had taken no food since he had shared bread , cheese , and ham with Marian and Allen after the fight with the sturdy beggars . |