Example sentences of "[to-vb] at his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Judge Lee refused to comment at his luxury home in Malvern , Worcs .
2 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 ’ .
3 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 ?
4 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 …
5 The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required .
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 ‘ It is indecent for a Muslim to look at his private parts and his excretion . ’
8 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 .
9 He did not for a while want to look at his own face .
10 Spatz said , turning to look at his Senior Technician .
11 In 1887 he was allowed to resign at his own request .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Having invented and evolved culture , man , it seems , never ceases to marvel at his own creation .
15 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 .
16 At first , he doubted his ability to succeed at his self-appointed task , which seemed ‘ utterly formidable , completely ludicrous ’ .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 He wanted a noisy , breezy curate to get at his rough teenagers .
22 There are obvious benefits in allowing each student to go at his own pace .
23 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 .
24 Their father was one of the first beneficiaries , and the whole family was able to gather at his 100th birthday party .
25 Being given time to proceed at his own speed in self-care
26 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 .
27 ‘ Thank you , ’ she said quietly , deciding not to protest at his reluctant gesture of chivalry .
28 He shifted restlessly and Isabel raised herself cautiously to peer at his bandaged arm .
29 It can be a problem if , for example , the groom speaks no English : either he , or the bride and her family , may feel he ought to have the opportunity to speak at his own wedding , or that he has a duty to honour his hosts by thanking them publicly .
30 Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall .
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