Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun sg] at his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hassan Hamdan , aged seven , was shot in the head by a sniper when he switched on the light at his bedroom in Mossaitbeh , a poor residential district controlled by Amal . |
| 2 | There was a silence , Jack watched his brothers look at each other in alarm , and saw his mother frown slightly down the table at his father . |
| 3 | ‘ These plates are cold , ’ said Patrick Milligan senior , looking up from his place and staring down the table at his five-year-old daughter , who at once scrambled to her feet . |
| 4 | Can you really imagine anyone hatching a devious plot to take over the school at his age ? ’ |
| 5 | The appellant , having discovered that the man had a number of previous convictions for similar offences , equipped himself with a hammer and a quantity of weak sulphuric acid and sought out the man at his place of work on two occasions . |