Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled his shirt away at the back of his neck and dropped the document down inside . |
| 2 | On their last visit to the Megabowl he had hurled his projectile directly at the fruit machines . |
| 3 | He reappeared with his shotgun just at the moment Judas was handing over his master . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's got one or two things on his mind just at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | But he defended his attitude firmly at the Cabinet on the same day . |
| 6 | The poor man was also banished from the grounds of the house to take up his station either at the gate or beyond it . |
| 7 | Adam shook his head curtly at the offer of a chair . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to make you the new Madonna , ’ Waterman promised his new prodigy , but even today he shakes his head disbelievingly at the opportunity others missed . |
| 9 | He was rubbing the top of his skull just at the hairline , but seemed otherwise unaffected . |
| 10 | Tom Poole , who had nursed his father devotedly at the end , was in low spirits , but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting . |
| 11 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 12 | Angalo waved his hand irritably at the screens . |
| 13 | Sir Ralph Grunte raised his hand dutifully at the end of Norman Lamont 's reply . |
| 14 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 16 | It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming . |