Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 2 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 3 | Reaching out for a vegetarian Scotch egg , and hurling it at his brother , Randy added casually , ‘ Will you have dinner with me tonight ? ’ |
| 4 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 5 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 6 | Glenn Gould played this regularly , even recorded it ( two movements on Le Chant du Monde CD LDC278 799 , 10/86 ) and played it at his last public concert in 1964 . |
| 7 | And then a few weeks ago she told me she 'd been invited to go and see him at his house or ‘ castle ’ as Blufton prefers to call it . ’ |
| 8 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're the one making a fucking mistake , ’ Morton snapped , raising the Ithaca and pointing it at his head . |
| 10 | One picks up a piece of donkey shit and throws it at his friend who runs off laughing . |
| 11 | Champion picked up his whip and waved it at his mount to encourage him over those last few yards , and Aldaniti responded gamely . |
| 12 | Again , he was deeply drawn to it , he loved it like a woman and wore it at his side . |
| 13 | Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face . |
| 14 | The princes thought this handsomely said and took him at his word . |
| 15 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 16 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |
| 17 | The devil , or alternatively the giant , Wade , is supposed to have scooped out the hole during a quarrel with a neighbour , and thrown it at his adversary . |
| 18 | The Prince did n't even wait for an answer but turned to a small table beside him , slopped two goblets full of wine , rose and thrust them at his unwanted guests . |
| 19 | Hindley put his right arm out through the hole , with the gun in it , and aimed it at his enemy . |
| 20 | He quoted a passage from the Psalms in which God speaks to the Messiah and sets him at his right hand until all enemies have been overcome . |
| 21 | I withdrew the muzzle of the trusty Smith and Waistcoat from Johnny 's nose and pointed it at his forehead . |