Example sentences of "his [noun] at [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devos might have added that Charpentier frequently reinforces his wishes at the ends of sections with verbal indications such as ‘ Passez sans interruption a la suite ’ ( ‘ Continue without interruption to the next movement ’ ) , or ‘ Suivez au Choeur sans interruption ’ ( ‘ Continue with the chorus without interruption ’ ) . |
| 2 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 3 | Wilson treated the majority with caution prior to his defeat at the polls in June 1970 . |
| 4 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 5 | At a time of radical change in Hungary , Nick Dallman relives his experiences at the hands of the secret and often brutal state now being dismantled State of fear . |
| 6 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 7 | The nation was horrified as details emerged of his ordeal at the hands of the Provisional IRA . |
| 8 | A paperboy has been telling of his ordeal at the hands of a gunman . |
| 9 | His shame at the hands of the Doctor parasite seems to have unhinged him . |
| 10 | At the moment New Yorkers can survey the length and breadth of his achievement at the galleries of the Americas Society on Park Avenue and coming up in January they can have a second look in a big retrospective of the artist 's work at the Studio Museum in Harlem . |
| 11 | Outside , the guard shook his head at the antics of the scientists , disturbed only by the niggling sensation that he 'd overlooked something . |
| 12 | Two risings under Henry VII followed attempts to levy taxes ; in 1489 the earl of Northumberland lost his life at the hands of a force of rebellious Yorkshiremen when he was trying to collect the subsidy granted that year , and in 1497 the levying of a tax for a war with Scotland led to a more serious revolt in Cornwall . |
| 13 | Certainly it dimmed the brightness of some of the mehfils — one noble was forced to ‘ lay his capital at the feet of the Emperor ’ during the invasion and afterwards his mehfils are described as ‘ subdued ’ — but there is no indication that Khan regarded the invasion as the end of an era ; only with hindsight would that become clear . |
| 14 | No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad . |
| 15 | She had said those words to him many times , reminding him of his indoctrination at the hands of Por Tanssie 's officials . |
| 16 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 17 | When he rang me he was already cross about his treatment at the hands of a previous biographer of Hamilton . |
| 18 | Mussolini met his death at the hands of the Italian partisans , on 28th . |
| 19 | After his death at the hands of a Skaven assassin in 1152 the Elector Counts failed to reach a decision as to who should be the new Emperor . |
| 20 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 21 | Since Tranter 's description , the renovator has removed any possibility of seeing , for instance , a gaunt and wild building like the House of Shaws in Kidnapped , where David Balfour almost met his death at the hands of his scheming uncle . |
| 22 | Whether or not he believed Maureen 's claim that her father met his death at the hands of political opponents , Brian Berg was dutifully pursuing that line . |
| 23 | For them " the splendid utterance of the divine in all mankind " had been definitively expressed over a thousand years previously in the way of life and teaching of Jesus Christ in Palestine , in his death at the hands of violently destructive men and in his restoration in life with the source of all being , God . |