Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His decision to stay at home for emergency meetings sent shock waves through the money markets and shares plunged . |
| 2 | He told me that his squadron landed at Singapore and took the surrender of the Japanese pending the arrival of the Burma army or the Navy . |
| 3 | Mr Fyfe , currently chairman of Ayrshire and Arran Health Board , has already made his presence felt at Greater Glasgow . |
| 4 | His presence kept at bay the pictures that danced through her mind , of Peter lying in the dust , her Peter who had , she realized suddenly , always had the same slightly defensive outlook that Hank had , of trying to forestall criticism . |
| 5 | In his Autobiographical Memoranda Wordsworth remembers first of all his freedom to read at Hawkshead : |
| 6 | ‘ It curtailed his sex life , ’ his lawyer said at Delray Beach , Florida . |
| 7 | His postgraduate teaching at Cambridge University , where he held the post of professor of engineering for 15 years , was particularly noted . |
| 8 | Within thirty years , he had developed his chemical works at St. Rollox into the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 9 | Tom screwed up his eyes to look at Zach . |
| 10 | A theft from a vehicle in Beaumont Street saw a diving enthusiast lose all his equipment valued at £1,145 . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , my dear , I do n't think you can find anything sinister in the fact that a man wants to see his child bathed at night . |
| 12 | The sound of his chainsaw started at dawn and did n't stop until dusk , at which point he started hauling the product of his day 's labour into the woodshed . |
| 13 | ‘ If he tells me once more that his parents met at midnight on Hallowe'en and live in a riverside pub which is his and his brother 's — I do n't know what I 'll do ! ’ thought Jane . |
| 14 | Both his parents looked at George , whose face was a picture of delight . |
| 15 | His manifesto aimed at issues his voters would identify with . |
| 16 | If on the other hand he also had some burning when he passed a motion , his feet burned at night and his eyes were dry and burning , then it is clear that the sensation of ‘ burning ’ runs throughout many areas of the person 's body and so becomes characteristic of him as a whole , that is , it becomes General . |
| 17 | Steve Martin 's manically over-conscientious dad steals the show , whether the news that his small , diffident young son needs psychiatric help or chewing the pitch as his offspring fumbles at baseball , and entertaining at a kids ' party as an unconvincing cowboy . |
| 18 | His heart was tossed into a fire , his head stuck on a pike on London Bridge , and the four quarters of his body displayed at Newcastle , Berwick , Perth and Aberdeen . |
| 19 | For when his job finished at night , he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies , drinking , playing dominoes , and talking of the ‘ old days ’ in that far-off land of persecution and misery . |
| 20 | Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her . |
| 21 | Rosenthal , 29 , has failed to sign a new one-year contract offered to him by Liverpool even though he has expressed his desire to stay at Anfield . |
| 22 | Of course , the real reason is that 900 of his constituents work at Rothmans and he fears for his majority but he ca n't bring himself actually to say so . |
| 23 | When his team played at home he confined his break-ins to the London area . |
| 24 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 25 | Nottingham Forest v Norwich Norwich 's manager Dave Stringer was playing the last time his team won at Forest — in 1974 . |
| 26 | He could make himself out to be the apostle of order in Europe , but he had to devote far more his attention to order at home . |
| 27 | He squinted out of the corner of his eye to look at Irina . |
| 28 | She knew she was still on trial , despite his efforts to appear at ease . |
| 29 | Willie has had tears in his eyes at Trevino 's performances just once , he maintains : when Lee put his ball out-of-bounds at Wentworth after fighting back to catch Nicklaus in a World Matchplay in the 1970s . |
| 30 | John Rudd died at Durham in 1579 and was buried in the cathedral : his wife died at Durham in 1582 , her inventory recording ‘ three maps ’ and ‘ one old map ’ amongst her possessions . |