Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angel left soon afterwards to start his studies at the flour-mill nearby . |
| 2 | Jim saw an open petrol station and cut in front of a two-kilometre queue of Romanian cars to flash his coupons at the attendant . |
| 3 | Even the local reporter had to kick his heels at the lich-gate with the few inquisitive neighbours who had gathered . |
| 4 | It was Pascoe 's turn to roll his eyes at the heavens . |
| 5 | ‘ Now he sails under a flag of convenience , prepared to change his views at the drop of an opinion poll . ’ |
| 6 | In 1918 he was shot in the knee while on a bombing raid and spent some time in hospital before being awarded an army scholarship , which enabled him to complete his studies at the City and Guilds College , London . |
| 7 | When asked to explain his responses at the end of the study , he replied that his chosen shapes ‘ looked closer and brighter ’ , but did not mention the symmetry which is so striking to a normal observer . |
| 8 | She had replayed in her mind what she had overheard , over and over again , and each time she tried to ignore his words at the end . |
| 9 | It had been far from the capital week he had come to expect from Cowes , what with Willie winning everything in sight , having to make diplomatic speeches to his own nephew about how jolly it was to lose to him , and then just as he got time to drown his sorrows at the Yacht Club he had to come to Broadstairs . |
| 10 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 11 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |