Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 2 | With great discretion , Dyson yawned , straining his muscles to keep his mouth shut at the same time . |
| 3 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 4 | ‘ His trainer remarked at the immediate bond which formed between Pete and I. ’ |
| 5 | MAXIM Vengerov dazzled everyone who heard his winning playing at the 1990 Carl Flesch Violin Competition in London . |
| 6 | ‘ Indeed … ’ began Wu Shih , then stopped , turning as his Chancellor appeared at the far end of the gallery . |
| 7 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 8 | Tommy Dowens , the Su Ragazzi coach , is taking no chances on his team falling at the semi-final stage again . |
| 9 | An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar . |
| 10 | A man in a two-piece suit , and a thin cotton shirt and his tie knotted at the second button of the shirt . |
| 11 | Serve them right , he thought vindictively and then , imitated at his own childishness , turned his head to look at the other people arranged alongside him , the desk 's shining expanse of polished wood reflecting their faces as twisted white blobs . |
| 12 | ‘ Unless you re-tell the story of Felipe de Santis and his blind sister as you write about the Hacienda de Nieve , ’ he pointed out stiffly , his warmth gone at the cold look on her face . |
| 13 | The House of Lords held , in effect , that since the applicant was arguing that he had a contractual right under his lease to remain at the lower rent , he was asserting private law rights and so could raise the defence in the possession proceedings in the County Court and did not have to raise it by means of an AJR . |
| 14 | He is confident he will gain the 6pc swing needed to secure the seat and says a Labour victory will ‘ finish off ’ what his colleague started at the last election in 1987 . |
| 15 | His stomach rebelled at the mere thought of food , but he knew he must not miss this golden opportunity to put something by for another day . |
| 16 | His thesis looked at the economic and environmental arguments over 40 and 44 tonne lorries . |
| 17 | He 'd have spent all his time looking at the bloody birds in the Jungle instead of reading his cue-cards . |
| 18 | On top of the CPRE work , he spends a quarter of his time teaching at the National Film School . |
| 19 | But to the sounds of utter silence from the European section of the Augusta press room , he hit his tee shot at the short 12th into the water , took five and by the 15th had given up his lead . |