Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw one of his friends at the other end of the road . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Whitelaw , as Home Secretary was furious at her applause for critics of his policies at the annual party conference . |
| 5 | Li Shai Tung looked down past his feet at the blue-white circle of Chung Kuo . |
| 6 | Perhaps this is the Rev. Fred Levison 's ‘ line ’ with his customers at the religious books ' stall ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | He did n't score because United 's gallant John Pemberton got under his feet at the critical moments like a wad of chewing gum . |
| 9 | John Piper was , at the time , a constable , but was to be discharged from his duties at the following session . |
| 10 | Thence it was finally brought to India in the thirteenth century by refugees fleeing Genghis Khan — at about the same time as Abelard was lecturing to his students at the new university of Paris . |
| 11 | The truth he got , but , when he rose to his feet at the splendid Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre to declare the summit open , no more than a few people present had any inkling of what he was about to say . |
| 12 | Some hours later , Ben returned to his duties at the fair . |
| 13 | D. N. Pritt , at the time a member of the Labour Party National Executive , gave a pro-Soviet report based on his observations at the 1936 trial . |
| 14 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |
| 15 | During his years at the Old Palace he spent considerable sums on restoring the building . |
| 16 | In minutes he was dressed and looking for his signallers at the Dutch HQ , for as second in command of the Company he must warn headquarters and the platoons in their hill positions above the town , as well as contacting Sparrow Force , whom he did not know were under attack the same night . |
| 17 | Baxter 's work and his royal connections made him famous during the years directly following the Great Exhibition and he gained public recognition for his achievements : he was awarded the great gold medal of Austria ( 1852 ) , and medals for his exhibits at the Great Exhibitions in New York ( 1853 ) and Paris ( 1855 ) , was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts ( 1855 ) , and received the grand gold medal of Sweden ( 1857 ) . |
| 18 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 19 | Rory smiled , sucking air through his teeth at the same time , clinked one thumbnail against his glass . |
| 20 | Inside the kitchen , Frobisher was kneeling beside the body , peering through his bifocals at the horrible dent in the skull . |
| 21 | He had another good chance when a high ball landed at his feet at the 18 yard line with no defenders in front of him . |
| 22 | We have no means of measuring the extent to which Anselm 's outlook may already have been changed by his experiences at the papal Curia , but there are two points at which we can observe an alteration in his language during and after his stay at Lyons . |