Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 2 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 3 | The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd . |
| 4 | Mo was saying that each child progresses at his own rate , and that later lulls regularly offset the apparent advances of their early years . |
| 5 | Howard was not only thanked by Parliament for his humanity and zeal ; he even had copies of the Act printed at his own expense and distributed to all gaol keepers . |
| 6 | A ceremonial sword hung at his left side in a gilded scabbard and clusters of beribboned medals and star-pointed orders festooned both sides of his tunic . |
| 7 | FIX-IT star Sir Jimmy Savile spoke last night of his sadness over job cuts at his favourite hospital . |
| 8 | He , Lewis , was quite prepared to get the place redecorated at his own expense . |
| 9 | THE teenager charged in the murder of a German tourist sobbed at his first court appearance last night as police staked out several Miami sites searching for his girlfriend and suspected accomplice . |
| 10 | The author presiding at his last meeting as chairman of the Arts Council in 1972 . |
| 11 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 12 | The major stared at his superior officer . |
| 13 | There are obvious benefits in allowing each student to go at his own pace . |
| 14 | The signalman guffawed at his own punchline then disappeared from view , closing the window after him . |
| 15 | The inspector looked at his sunken head with compassion . |
| 16 | Or rather , about finishing up customers ' drinks , for when Albert came in on a Monday morning drunk at his own expense none of his morally outraged proprietors had ever turned a hair . |
| 17 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 18 | When he was voted the English League 's Player of the Year in 1973 , the Sunday Telegraph marvelled at his new maturity , and described his transformation as being ‘ like Attila The Hun giving up fighting for sculpture . ’ |
| 19 | The man chuckled at his own joke . |
| 20 | Sister smiled at his blue-jacketed back . |
| 21 | Tim 's hand clutched at his fair hair . |
| 22 | His right hand gripped at his left shoulder almost convulsively , then let it go , flinging itself outward in a gesture of despair . |
| 23 | The effectiveness of training can be maintained if the training scheme incorporates features such as smaller learning steps and ‘ discovery learning ’ where the trainee proceeds at his own pace using his own strategies ( Belbin 1965 ) . |
| 24 | The proctologist hooted at his own wit before asking which of my father 's famous wives was my mother . |
| 25 | This morning I spoke briefly to Terry Waite while he was on board the aircraft returning home and was able to express the delight that I and the whole country felt at his safe return and at Mr. Sutherland 's release . |
| 26 | At first , he doubted his ability to succeed at his self-appointed task , which seemed ‘ utterly formidable , completely ludicrous ’ . |
| 27 | It can be a problem if , for example , the groom speaks no English : either he , or the bride and her family , may feel he ought to have the opportunity to speak at his own wedding , or that he has a duty to honour his hosts by thanking them publicly . |
| 28 | Being given time to proceed at his own speed in self-care |
| 29 | Michael decides he needs time , time to explore at his own pace projects involving the art of photography , video , tape slide , drama , art and design , computing , creative writing , music … |
| 30 | So in relation to section 13(1) of the Acts of 1974 and 1976 , for a judge ( who is always dealing with an individual case ) to pose himself the question : ‘ Can Parliament really have intended that the acts that were done in this particular case should have the benefit of the immunity ? ’ is to risk straying beyond his constitutional role as interpreter of the enacted law and assuming a power to decide at his own discretion whether or not to apply the general law to a particular case . |