Example sentences of "[vb past] at his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 4 | Her voice had grown jerky and breathless and she caught at his caressing hand . |
| 5 | The police officer gaped at his Swiss Police knife . |
| 6 | The proctologist hooted at his own wit before asking which of my father 's famous wives was my mother . |
| 7 | Meredith fumed at his liquefying eyes and the contemptuous curl of his sculpted mouth . |
| 8 | Buckmaster dabbed at his thin lips with his napkin . |
| 9 | Antonio roared at his own humour , joined by Christina and Stephen , while his wife stood silent . |
| 10 | She bridled at his autocratic tone . |
| 11 | She squinted at his sunstarred silhouette . |
| 12 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 13 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 14 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 15 | He folded complacent white hands over his considerable girth and frowned at his two listeners . |
| 16 | Lorton rinsed the lather from his skin and frowned at his clean-shaven face . |
| 17 | He licked at his damaged hand with his enormous soft pink tongue , just like a dog washing itself . |
| 18 | His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his ! |
| 19 | Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men . |
| 20 | He arrived at his final year at high school in good fettle and with enough good grades to get to university if he wanted . |
| 21 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 22 | After a painstaking analysis of the data , Kepler arrived at his three laws of planetary motion , that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun , that a line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times , and that the square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun . |
| 23 | Something made me pour myself a glass of wine before Stuart returned at his usual hour of 6.30 . |
| 24 | Tottenham fans are still waiting to see the England Under-21 international produce the scintillating form that he displayed at his former club Portsmouth . |
| 25 | Parker swiped at his bleeding eye . |
| 26 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 27 | The Reverend Witherspoon shook his head and grinned at his tall friend . |
| 28 | The soldier , his eyes dead and full of drink , shrugged and grinned at his two companions , sallow , pimply youths already much the worse for wine . |
| 29 | She flinched at his ill-judged choice of words . |
| 30 | Peter Yeo was still looking out of the window , and Claudia glanced at his familiar back , too short and too broad despite the most expensive tailoring , with real anxiety , ‘ You do n't honestly think that , do you , Peter ? |