Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his effects were sent back to Forres , John Keith said little but took the medals his son had won in battle and late at night , after his session at the Mason 's Arms , walked to the Mill pond and threw all four of them in , ribbons and all . |
| 2 | In 460 , two years after his success at the Pythia , Arkesilas achieved the crown of human ambition by winning the chariot-race at Olympia , fulfilling Pindar 's prayer at the end of the Fifth Pythian . |
| 3 | He reckoned he should have been legless after his booze-up at a nightclub and insisted that the ale must have been watered down . |
| 4 | They say that ‘ nothing happens to the bad ‘ uns ’ , but it seemed unbelievable that misfortune should strike Arthur yet again directly after his triumphs at the Horse of The Year Show . |
| 5 | After his death at the age of ninety-four on 2 November 1950 , following a fall in his garden , his will was recognised to be a great public-spirited document . |
| 6 | After his death at the hands of a Skaven assassin in 1152 the Elector Counts failed to reach a decision as to who should be the new Emperor . |
| 7 | Around the choir is a wooden bas-relief depicting the flight in 1620 of Frederick of the Palatinate to Warsaw after his defeat at the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 8 | Politburo ‘ conservatives ’ hardly had a coherent programme , and their numbers were subject to continual attrition ( Ligachev , who left the leadership after his defeat at the 28th Congress , was a notable casualty ) . |
| 9 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 10 | Two years after his appointment at the Chelsea Garden , Miller played a major part in producing The Gardener 's and Florists 's Dictionary . |
| 11 | As for Matthew , the old man had to admit that , despite his anger at the boy for having deserted him , he still felt a murmuring of affection towards him . |
| 12 | The observer was asked to move through the wood of his choice at a fixed speed , dividing the time spent into units of 10 minutes each and recording for each 10-minute period all the birds seen or heard , normally within a band of 50 yards ( 46 metres ) from the observer . |
| 13 | The Welsh Office remains wet ; the Scottish Office damp ; and Douglas Hurd has the team of his choice at the Foreign Office . |
| 14 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 15 | Take part of Lyly 's description of his hero at the beginning of Euphues , which deserves our attention as " the first novel in English " : The elaborate parallelistic structure of these two sentences has been displayed above by placing the parallelisms or structural equivalences , in brackets . |
| 16 | During Austrian GP practice Simmons got the fright of his life at the top of Salzburgring 's terrifying Ostschliefe hill , where the outfits funnel through a 150mph tunnel of armco . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister and senior Cabinet colleagues gathered at the House of Commons Church … it was a fitting place for Nicholas Ridley 's memorial service , he 'd spent 33 years of his life at the centre of British politics . |
| 18 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 19 | At their last meeting a line had been reached , and despite the urgings of his senses at the time , he was not sure that they wanted to cross it . |
| 20 | That fear was a very real one and , in view of his connections at a high level , it is probable that he was aware of what was going on . |
| 21 | John Cooksley is staging an exhibition of his works at the centre , and also showing visitors the techniques he uses to capture his subjects on canvas . |
| 22 | While Ambrose earns wickets for his colleagues merely by dint of his presence at the other end , one timely intrusion at Chelmsford dispelled any notions of sloth . |
| 23 | I saw a hole in one of his socks at the back as big as a potato , and offered to do some mending for him . ’ |
| 24 | Carter had done his best in his campaign to capitalize on this negative mood , yet the margin of his success at the polls had been small . |
| 25 | He was determined not to be done out of his bones at the end of the feast . |
| 26 | Until 30 July , Hervé Di Rosa , who shares Boisrond 's spontaneous populism , though in a more neo-surrealist vein and with more kitsch , is showing ten or so of his paintings at the Laage-Salomon , where they constitute a mini-retrospective of the years 1982–1992 . |
| 27 | Aussie scrum half Allan Langer is playing out of his skin at the moment and if ‘ Alfie ’ controls the open spaces at Wembley , it will be curtains . |
| 28 | He had accomplished nothing and he may well have meditated on the difference between his situation and that of his uncle at the Erfurt meeting with the German Princes in 1808 . |
| 29 | He suddenly thought of using it to play a joke on some of his friends at the Post , concealed it in his newspaper and left the pub . |
| 30 | Similar impressions are obtained from other examples of this type : ( 22 ) He did not want to be alone , and had expected to find some of his friends at the bar . |