Example sentences of "[adv prt] his [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man opposite her threw down his Reveille at the same moment , and their eyes met . |
| 2 | He glanced over his shoulder at the crowd of people . |
| 3 | George came last , carrying an attaché case of papers and looking over his shoulder at the train as if wondering if he 'd forgotten anything . |
| 4 | He gestured over his shoulder at the other members of the golfing Press . |
| 5 | Whitlock took a sip of beer then glanced over his shoulder at the entrance . |
| 6 | I peered over his shoulder at the spidery script . |
| 7 | Richie glanced over his shoulder at the young PC pacing behind them . |
| 8 | Then he laughed over his shoulder at the Mason . |
| 9 | He is a tall , thin , stooped man , with silvery grey hair , deeply receding at the temples , curling over his collar at the back . |
| 10 | Finally , the Churchill patience snapped and , peering over his glasses at the hapless Opposition MP , he retorted : ‘ I am grateful for the opportunity to remind the Honourable Member for Dewsbury what a dirty dog does to a paling . ’ |
| 11 | Patrick , crouched over his books at the other end of the table , never asked his advice ; but then Patrick had always been faintly hostile and jealous of a masculine encroachment on a territory that had been his alone since the departure of the two eldest boys . |
| 12 | Harry 's own half-formed suspicions tended to focus on him because Clare Mallender had been seen mooning over his photograph at the Skein of Geese two weeks before her death . |
| 13 | He takes over his job at the telecommunications regulator on 1 April . |
| 14 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance comittee . |
| 15 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance committee . |
| 16 | He promised to pay off his debt at the rate of 20 marks a year . |
| 17 | Twenty minutes later , after a silent , worried drive , Herr Nordern dropped off his wife at the Welfare Centre . |
| 18 | The Commissariat will henceforth be administered by Mr Simmons , and Mr Rayne will take up his duties at the ramparts ; his bearers , however , will remain to assist in the Commissariat . |
| 19 | He had them set up his bier at the end of the hall , draped in black velvet , and its handles tasselled in black and gold . |
| 20 | Born in Fife , Scotland in 1936 , Clark was the son of a wealthy sheep farmer and gave up his education at the age of 16 to work on the farm . |
| 21 | ASTON VILLA 'S central defender Paul McGrath is considering hanging up his boots at the end of the season . |
| 22 | He never got to clean up his act at the Betty Ford Clinic then bore us all stupid with tales of his past self-abuse . |
| 23 | Jinkwa took up his position at the console . |
| 24 | John had the name first , this being about the only tangible asset retrieved from the Wavesports collapse , but when Pete set up his firm at a later date there was no indication that John would be producing clothing . |
| 25 | In setting up his assignment at the University of Alabama , Donleavy had assumed that Coleman would return to Cyprus with Mary-Claude and Sarah in February 1988 , but analysing the personal histories of foreign scholars produced such interesting results that the DIA several times postponed his departure . |
| 26 | Sign he did , giving up his past at the Old Sun . |
| 27 | Mr Heath , 47 , earned £3 million in 1989 when the international share dealing business was turning in record profits but ‘ a disagreement about strategic policy ’ has led to him giving up his directorships at the City 's oldest merchant banking group . |
| 28 | Mr. Benson , who is married with a two-year-old son , lives near Havant and will take up his post at the end of April . |
| 29 | A new director has taken up his post at the State Hermitage . |
| 30 | Bob will take up his post at the beginning of January 1992 and will be based at Canada 's head office in Toronto . |