Example sentences of "[verb] at his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |
| 2 | Even then he did not fight to recover his own hold on safety , but strained at his slipping grip on the man , dragging him outwards . |
| 3 | ‘ Did I not say , Harry , that I 'd get it from you , and no other ? ’ said Isambard , still laughing at his stricken face . |
| 4 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 5 | He doubled up laughing at his own joke . |
| 6 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 7 | She winced at his ruthless manipulation , and he moved forwards quickly , confounding her by kneeling and pulling away her hands , holding them by her sides , the weight of his body pressing against her as his mouth came inexorably closer towards her pulsating nipple . |
| 8 | Her eyes had flown to meet his , then dropped at his sarcastic comment as her cheeks became stained with an ugly red . |
| 9 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 10 | And he wonders at his own sanity when he hears of the wealth of some of his rivals . |
| 11 | Three nights she had been imprisoned here — the last one without food or water , since the guard had not come at his usual time . |
| 12 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 13 | Judge Lee refused to comment at his luxury home in Malvern , Worcs . |
| 14 | Her voice had grown jerky and breathless and she caught at his caressing hand . |
| 15 | Graham looks at his third can of beer thoughtfully . |
| 16 | ( Abberley looks at his own cardiograph for a time . |
| 17 | The proctologist hooted at his own wit before asking which of my father 's famous wives was my mother . |
| 18 | The Prince and Princess put on a show by travelling in the same car as Harry starts at his new school . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Inspector Cotton is getting uppity , because we have looked at his precious Livesey file . ’ |
| 21 | Gregory , who has been in and out of care most of his life , did n't even glance at his 30-year-old mother as he told the court in Orlando , Florida : |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | As I grew more proficient he leaned on the rail , sucked at his long clay pipe and reminisced about his days in sail or his experiences in ports from Aden to Hong Kong . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | Antonio roared at his own humour , joined by Christina and Stephen , while his wife stood silent . |
| 26 | He had been defeated at his first attempt in 1685 , and in 1689 petitioned the Commons against Tory violence at the hustings . |
| 27 | ‘ What a lovely thing to do , ’ he remarked and , appalled at his patronising tone , told her that her ears should have been burning on Christmas Day . |
| 28 | She was shouting now , scorching with pain , pushing at his hard chest in a futile effort to move him away from the door . |
| 29 | She bridled at his autocratic tone . |
| 30 | ‘ You can spot a man 's nationality from looking at his dental work . |