Example sentences of "[to-vb] at his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One frail , thin hand went up to pull at his wispy grey goatee , the other moved slightly on the staff , inclining it towards the distant line of men . |
| 2 | Judge Lee refused to comment at his luxury home in Malvern , Worcs . |
| 3 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 4 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 5 | Michael decides he needs time , time to explore at his own pace projects involving the art of photography , video , tape slide , drama , art and design , computing , creative writing , music … |
| 6 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 7 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 8 | ‘ It is indecent for a Muslim to look at his private parts and his excretion . ’ |
| 9 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 10 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 11 | Spatz said , turning to look at his Senior Technician . |
| 12 | In 1887 he was allowed to resign at his own request . |
| 13 | Leith got started on her work , doubting very much that they would so much as catch a glimpse of their new ‘ colleagues ’ , but she had to smile at his quaint terminology for the higher ranks . |
| 14 | He looked north to where the City ended abruptly on the shores of the icy Baltic , then turned to smile at his personal secretary , Chang Shih-sen . |
| 15 | With the preparation unquestionably right , therefore , the question was , ‘ could Forget demonstrate the big heart and the ability to play at his best at the right time ? ’ |
| 16 | Having invented and evolved culture , man , it seems , never ceases to marvel at his own creation . |
| 17 | My father had helped Margaret during the early years , but directly Dickie had been old enough to board at his preparatory school Margaret had insisted on returning to nursing and becoming sole breadwinner . |
| 18 | At first , he doubted his ability to succeed at his self-appointed task , which seemed ‘ utterly formidable , completely ludicrous ’ . |
| 19 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 20 | So in relation to section 13(1) of the Acts of 1974 and 1976 , for a judge ( who is always dealing with an individual case ) to pose himself the question : ‘ Can Parliament really have intended that the acts that were done in this particular case should have the benefit of the immunity ? ’ is to risk straying beyond his constitutional role as interpreter of the enacted law and assuming a power to decide at his own discretion whether or not to apply the general law to a particular case . |
| 21 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 22 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 23 | He wanted a noisy , breezy curate to get at his rough teenagers . |
| 24 | There are obvious benefits in allowing each student to go at his own pace . |
| 25 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 26 | Their father was one of the first beneficiaries , and the whole family was able to gather at his 100th birthday party . |
| 27 | Being given time to proceed at his own speed in self-care |
| 28 | Emerson , on the other hand , required a good machine , solid backing , a lot of mental caressing , to perform at his best . |
| 29 | The 29ft 6in columns of North Leith Church were to reappear at his great Classical mansion of Camperdown seven years later . |
| 30 | Andy Till , who defends his British light-middleweight title against Tony Collins at York Hall , Bethnal Green tonight , also failed to show at his same-venue news conference . |