Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politburo ‘ conservatives ’ hardly had a coherent programme , and their numbers were subject to continual attrition ( Ligachev , who left the leadership after his defeat at the 28th Congress , was a notable casualty ) . |
| 2 | The Welsh Office remains wet ; the Scottish Office damp ; and Douglas Hurd has the team of his choice at the Foreign Office . |
| 3 | While Ambrose earns wickets for his colleagues merely by dint of his presence at the other end , one timely intrusion at Chelmsford dispelled any notions of sloth . |
| 4 | He saw one of his friends at the other end of the road . |
| 5 | ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed you can visit the house where he was born , see one of his plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , or a contemporary performance at the Swan Theatre , see an exhibition of his life and times at the Shakespeare Centre and visit the picturesque home of his wife , Anne Hathaway . |
| 7 | Mr Whitelaw , as Home Secretary was furious at her applause for critics of his policies at the annual party conference . |
| 8 | ‘ Depressed , ’ is his summary of his state at the final exclusion . |
| 9 | Gironella 's first direct encounter with Velázquez was at an exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1959 . |
| 10 | In April 1947 he was appointed a lord of appeal in ordinary , having already been granted in January a hereditary peerage in recognition of his work at the international tribunal at Nuremberg ( 1945–6 ) . |
| 11 | Dr Alastair McKinley is monitoring the amount of ultraviolet rays from the sun as part of his work at the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 12 | To embody this revolt of the young against the old , Mosley founded his New Party , encouraged by the triumph of his appearance at the Labour Party Conference in 1930 , after his resignation from office . |
| 13 | In one of the last and most highly dramatised flourishes of his directorship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , J. Carter Brown announced on 4 June that his museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be receiving on loan twenty-two fifth-century BC sculptures from Greece that have never been loaned before . |
| 14 | If he is not saying that he would repeal the increase in VAT , he is simply speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time . |
| 15 | The disciplinary control exercised by these groups is usually powerful , for if any member breaks away and acts contrary to the decisions of the group on any important issue he will probably lose the support of his party at the next election . |
| 16 | Benjamin pointed with the tip of his finger at the purple-red crosses on the corpse 's chest . |
| 17 | O. Pächt identified the Alexis Master as Anketil , a monk-goldsmith of St Albans Abbey , who completed a new shrine for the relics of St Alban in 1129 , and spent part of his career at the Danish court as royal moneyer . |
| 18 | He had n't changed , she thought glumly , staring determinedly past his shoulder at the bright steel walls of the lift . |
| 19 | Li Shai Tung looked down past his feet at the blue-white circle of Chung Kuo . |
| 20 | His presence made up her mind for her and she turned , brushing past him and heading towards a newspaper vendor who sat shivering behind his stall at the nearby entrance to a Metro station . |
| 21 | As he did so , he struck out reflexively with his knife at the outstretched leg of the flying figure , and had the satisfaction of feeling the blade strike home . |
| 22 | Perhaps this is the Rev. Fred Levison 's ‘ line ’ with his customers at the religious books ' stall ? |
| 23 | Baker-Finch had slipped off the leaderboard , and Watson looked to be in big trouble with his drive at the 12th . |
| 24 | ‘ There must be a hole in the floor under here , ’ he said to his sister , scuffing with his toes at the worn grey and red runner which one of the commune people had laid along this corridor . |
| 25 | ‘ Some of it seemed to cross into the Aids field , which had nothing to do with his brief at the Royal Free . ’ |
| 26 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |
| 27 | Hughes created a good impression with his exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1989 . |
| 28 | A man 's shout pierced the mist , and the first pursuer rushed out of the end of the alley and cut with his sword at the hatted shape which he saw dimly ahead of him . |
| 29 | He looked into his tent at the two dark cowled figures squatting there . |
| 30 | Operates via his cousin at the Spanish Embassy in Berlin using a diplomatic pouch . ’ |