Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] at the [noun sg] " 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 | He reappeared with his shotgun just at the moment Judas was handing over his master . |
| 3 | But Rush is confident that any animosity has long-since faded and that his former boss is due for a hero 's welcome when he leads his side out at the ground he graced for 14 illustrious years as player and manager . |
| 4 | He could see Edgar Lustgarten narrowing his eyes threateningly at the camera , as he paced out the length of Maple Drive . |
| 5 | As soon as he saw Adam 's passport he had flicked his eyes down at the register under the counter . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's got one or two things on his mind just at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | But he defended his attitude firmly at the Cabinet on the same day . |
| 8 | The stairs creaked even where he placed his feet carefully at the wall side and the ludicrous self-portrait of himself as a householder properly armed with a poker going upstairs to hunt burglars made him stop to tauten his thoughts . |
| 9 | It comes as some surprise , therefore , to hear one of the men likely to benefit turning his nose up at the prospect of winning a ‘ cheap cap ’ . |
| 10 | The poor man was also banished from the grounds of the house to take up his station either at the gate or beyond it . |
| 11 | FitzAlan jerked his head back at the settlement . |
| 12 | He pushed his head in at the window " Are you the vet ? " |
| 13 | Adam shook his head curtly at the offer of a chair . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue . |
| 16 | Elsewhere , JESUS JONES ’ jovial MIKE EDWARDS — a man never ashamed to fill his wallet up at the drop of a hat — could be heard regaling the select with details of his latest project , which we hear is a remix of a BON JOVI track . |
| 17 | He is famed for his ‘ laid-back ’ attitude , his apparent unconcern about his actions both at the crease and at press conferences , and such an easy-going approach led many people to believe that he had little real commitment . |
| 18 | He was rubbing the top of his skull just at the hairline , but seemed otherwise unaffected . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 21 | Wycliffe saw Franks and his secretary off at the shop door . |
| 22 | He shook hands with Edward , tapped his pipe out at the bar , nodded , and left . |
| 23 | ‘ He waves his arms about at the office sometimes , ’ said Bob . |
| 24 | ‘ He plays at pirates all the time , does wheelies on his bike , throws mud at his friends , kicks his football into the neighbours ' garden and pings his food around at the tea table . ’ |
| 25 | They fought , and ran , and stood to fight again , tiring , separated , driven now like hunted hares , until Isambard called his men back at the brook and let them rest at last . |
| 26 | Sir Ralph Grunte raised his hand dutifully at the end of Norman Lamont 's reply . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | In Neale 's version Christian loses his burden not at the Cross but after being dipped in a well , symbolising baptismal regeneration . |
| 29 | He was pulling back the calf 's head so the brown eyes rolled up and only the whites were showing , and opening its mouth by slipping his thumb in at the side . |
| 30 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |