Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radical , impetuous , and hot-tongued , Headlam was nevertheless a profoundly devout man , and no broad churchman , either ; he was a high ritualist , and refused , with great sorrow , the wish of the divorced Charles Stewart Parnell [ q.v. ] that he should officiate at his marriage to Kitty O'Shea . |
| 2 | Pusey suggested that we should meet at his flat at six o'clock and that suited me well , for with luck I should know the outcome of Redpath 's interview with the dentist , and have Miss Macdonald 's list . |
| 3 | The author should imagine at his elbow a Querying Counsel criticising and cross-examining every phrase and sentence and pouncing on every lapse into " jungle " English or common jargon . |
| 4 | Antony 's only request is that he may speak at his funeral . |
| 5 | Tell him we 'll arrive at his rooms at eleven o'clock this evening . |
| 6 | I 'd eat at his restaurant . |
| 7 | He desperately wished he could glance at his watch , but knew he could n't risk it ; it was late … it must be sometime around ten . |
| 8 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 9 | He 'd look at his watch , then at the clock on the wall , then at his watch . |
| 10 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 11 | Two could play at his game . |
| 12 | My wife used to work at his house . |
| 13 | There are even indications that many of Picasso 's circle , the artists , writers and dealers who used to meet at his studio in the Bateau Lavoir and at the Steins ' house in the rue Fleurus , already saw Picasso and Matisse as the two rival personalities most likely to influence the course of twentieth-century painting . |
| 14 | He used to stay at his club during the week , and go home for the weekends . ’ |
| 15 | In France teenage girls would squeal at his floaters . |
| 16 | To be basted with pitch in a dark pen full of brimstone where adders would suck at his eyes and snakes curl round his lying tongue ! |
| 17 | She dearly wished he would look at his toes , or out the window , or anywhere but into her eyes . |
| 18 | People would marvel at his cleverness , but they would never understand the person beneath it . |
| 19 | He would stand at his study window before the open curtains , his bespectacled eyes blinking into the night and his lips parted , but motionless , until after an interval they would shape a soundless ‘ Amen ’ . |
| 20 | And give warning to Dacre that if he led a force into Scotland hereafter , as reputedly planned , he would suffer at his house of Gilsland . |
| 21 | As the days passed Creggan got used to Slorne 's silence and grew to like it and he would perch at his stance and think about the land in the South where the two of them came from and try to imagine what it was like . |
| 22 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 23 | For the remainder of this one we will look at his account of personal identity and the mind , and then at his political philosophy . |
| 24 | ‘ First of all we will look at his numerical and mathematical ability which he has gained from reckoning areas from odd shaped bits of land and working out the number of trees they will take , and from his mother 's shopping expeditions , and we will reduce these to simple symbolic formulas and tables and make children learn a lot of them very quickly . |
| 25 | Each person will recover at his or her own pace , with the same individual variation as for any other illness , but generally the next week is spent on Step 2 . |
| 26 | Equally he knows that it is something he will ignore at his peril . |
| 27 | We work well together , I respect him as a professional , I can laugh at his jokes and I can even accept that his genius probably entitles him to live by a set of standards most of us do n't even recognise as standards — but that 's it ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If you think someone can work at his best at half past two in the morning after being at it since eight the day before you know nothing about human beings . |