Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Idiot ! ’ she laughed , her heart thudding at his compliments . |
| 2 | Maggie was a bit shaken at his silence and knew she was once again blushing . |
| 3 | From the pouch hanging at his belt he brought out a leather flask . |
| 4 | Trent came after him , right foot driving at his crotch but hitting his thigh as he rolled again . |
| 5 | Researchers of medieval settlements would do well , perhaps , to regard their scanty documentary references — often only the name and owner of a site at a particular date — in the same way that the Romanist looks at his sherds and the prehistorian his flint scatters . |
| 6 | How my heart sank at his words . |
| 7 | Jazzie looks at his hotel table , crowded with award statuettes . |
| 8 | The carp feeding around the inlet nudged at his fingers . |
| 9 | The wind burbled at his ear like frantic drumming . |
| 10 | Then up and on again with the wild wind catching at his wings and he trying to control it , to hover and reorientate . |
| 11 | The president has at his disposal an array of bargaining counters that he must ceaselessly and skilfully deploy in countless negotiating situations . |
| 12 | Otherwise it was largely a stunt — the saxophonist acting like a contortionist while continuing to play , the bass-player straddling his instrument on the floor , as if he were raping it ; and it was de rigueur for the pianist to stand at his instrument , and play with one hand , thus giving himself freedom for muscular improvisation . |
| 13 | Holly pushed his feet beneath the steel plate and the wind caught at his socks and trousers and drove a channelled wind against his legs and he cursed the awkwardness of his overcoat , and his feet kicked in the space like the feet of a hanging man . |
| 14 | Bevin 's reply hinted at his fear that such arrangements might reduce Britain to the position of a humble deputy to the American sheriff . |
| 15 | Inside , at the far end of the hut , Hob lay on a bed , his face white , the red blood frothing at his lips . |
| 16 | He was ashamed of himself , and he leant towards her , and the scent she had dabbed at her neck in the bedroom played at his nostrils . |
| 17 | Because of his other highly classified projects , his office already contained all the paraphernalia of necessary secrecy : the code-block and buttons on the door , the gaggle of different-coloured telephones , the five-thousand-pound safes , even the tempered glass in the windows , as his lawyer noted at his trial , ‘ so that enemies of the country ca n't beam through the windows and pick up the sound ’ . |
| 18 | On Whitsunday 1658 a stranger called at his house and begged for some small beer . |
| 19 | The pin-up star of hit movie Universal Soldier collapsed at his home in Los Angeles ’ San Fernando Valley after a strenuous work-out session in his private gym . |
| 20 | And the men in the boat fell at his feet , exclaiming , ‘ Truly you are the Son of God ’ ( Matt . |
| 21 | So it may be that Green influenced the way that the great poet looked at his surroundings , certainly in the later editions of Wordsworth 's Guide he acknowledges the value of the painter 's book . |
| 22 | A light dimmed at his passing . |
| 23 | He tapped the shoulder of the hunched figure seated at his left . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course we are trying to recruit new people to Flockplan , but we are doing so in the knowledge that having a detailed analysis of flock performance and an independent adviser standing at his shoulder , can help a sheep producer improve efficiency and profit enough to recoup the cost many times over . ’ |
| 25 | When I close my eyes and imagine fatherhood , I see all the standard clichés : John Jr walking with me in the park , a football dribbling at his chubby little feet ; John Jr passing me a spanner as I lie underneath the motorbike ; John Jr asking me to read him that story one more time because I read it so well . |
| 26 | A dark figure appeared at his side , limping . |
| 27 | He reviewed the massed ranks of the uniformed SA and SS on the Langemarkt and made violently anti-Polish speeches from the Artushof and from the Zoppot Cure-House — speeches that left what remained of the opposition staggered at his vehemence and fearful of the consequences . |
| 28 | With a swift in and out action the practitioner strikes at his attacker 's eyes . |
| 29 | But as the priest stood at his study window , fingers joined in thanksgiving to the night sky for his release from the bitter-sweet torture of reliving what was dead and gone , his mind quailed before his new dilemma . |
| 30 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |