Example sentences of "at his left " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paused to pull on his beer bottle which , emptied , he tossed out through the tiny triangular window at his left elbow . |
| 2 | Chatterton carried two heavy suitcases across the gangplank and ignored the over-excited Rickie who shadowboxed two punches at his left arm . |
| 3 | And the sunshine would do him good , she had said , would help with the arthritis that nagged at his left hip joint . |
| 4 | Perhaps he needed an ironist to accompany him — at his left hand ; and at his right hand , his Assassin . |
| 5 | Stuck into his snake-clasped belt was a long-barrelled German pistol , while at his left hip was a battered metal scabbard in which there hung a British heavy cavalry sword . |
| 6 | And looking round , disturbed by a vague presence at his left shoulder , encounters his friend . |
| 7 | I slaved all day at his left knee , |
| 8 | He looked down at his left hand , then turned it over , studying its back . |
| 9 | A ceremonial sword hung at his left side in a gilded scabbard and clusters of beribboned medals and star-pointed orders festooned both sides of his tunic . |
| 10 | He braced his hand on the staircase rail at his left and looked around him into the shadows . |
| 11 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 12 | His right hand gripped at his left shoulder almost convulsively , then let it go , flinging itself outward in a gesture of despair . |
| 13 | He collected and threw it back to the pursuing fielder with an easy gesture-then suddenly clutched at his left side . |
| 14 | Dreamer fell , clutching at his left cheek . |
| 15 | Looked very dangerous there , he got at his left full back , er the sad thing from Shrewsbury 's point of view is that he keeps getting down that right wing and he keeps getting crosses in . |