Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the sunshine would do him good , she had said , would help with the arthritis that nagged at his left hip joint . |
| 2 | When the baglady enters the hushed cafeteria and threads steadily past the skewered tables , when the derelict stands and faces the oncoming crowds and arrives at his soft selection , we all know who they have in mind . |
| 3 | Lorton rinsed the lather from his skin and frowned at his clean-shaven face . |
| 4 | The heart-throb country and western singer , at No. 6 with Achy Breaky Heart , is fed up with female fans grabbing and pulling at his famous ponytail . |
| 5 | Besides groups of bronze statuettes by Degas and Henry Moore , notable works include Miró 's ‘ Tëte ’ ( 1974 ) , ‘ Oedipus II ’ ( 1962 ) , a stone and bronze sculpture by William Turnbull , Kim Lim 's ‘ River-Stone ’ , a new standing block of Calacatta Siena marble , delicately decorated with incisions , a vast wall sculpture ( 1987 ) created by Mimmo Paladino from gold and encaustic and bronze , and Julian Schnabel 's ‘ Jacqueline ’ , a bronze bust of his former wife mounted on a steel platform and shown at his retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1987 . |
| 6 | ( Grunte settled down comfortably and glanced at his Daily Mail ; Angela never used one word where three would ‘ suffice ’ . ) |
| 7 | The Reverend Witherspoon shook his head and grinned at his tall friend . |
| 8 | There Baron Grimm heard Wolfgang again , and marvelled at his remarkable prowess . |
| 9 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 10 | In her rage , she leapt up and pummelled at his unresisting chest , hot tears flowing down her flushed cheeks till his cold , emotionless face was a blur . |
| 11 | She paused and looked at his dear face again . |
| 12 | Duncan turned and looked at his sleeping companion , now slumped in his seat , his mouth open as his snores rumbled across the cabin . |
| 13 | She sat down on the bench opposite to him and looked at his fat baby face , which was now showing some concern . |
| 14 | Harry curls up his lip , and picks at his gold-filled teeth with the matchstick . |
| 15 | He turned and smiled at his white-faced wife . |
| 16 | He was swilling his sherry with a will , and tugging at his bushy , nicotine-stained moustache as if he expected it to come off . |
| 17 | He reined in his horse and glared at his cheery-faced tormentor . |
| 18 | She started to moan and pull at his limp penis . |
| 19 | He waited for three-quarters of an hour , until the mottled grey of false-dawn had given way to a pink-and-pearl flush above the silent rooftops , then left , walking between the rows of drawn curtains and smiling at his wrong choice . |
| 20 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He would look at Harry , the picture of health and happiness and , while marvelling at his steady uncomplicated progress , suddenly think of the child 's mother , a travesty of the woman he had once known , suffering , it would seem , from chronic post-natal depression , so much so that , on Winifred Shalcross 's advice , a second specialist had been called in . |