Example sentences of "his [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bielicki formally submitted his resignation at the inaugural session of the new Sejm on Nov. 25 , despite a plea from Walesa to remain . |
| 2 | Jovic formally withdrew his resignation at the next meeting of the Federal Presidency on March 21 . |
| 3 | There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's . |
| 4 | He looked into his tent at the two dark cowled figures squatting there . |
| 5 | I turned up at his apartment at the appointed hour . |
| 6 | The appellant was anxious for the matter to be dealt with in the magistrates ' court , but his accomplice elected to be tried in the Crown Court , but changed his plea at the last minute . |
| 7 | This was how North presented his case at the public hearings , never doubting . |
| 8 | As Yanto went through , Billy turned and hurled his stick at the oncoming stag , which hesitated slightly . |
| 9 | ‘ He shook his stick at the old man , who stepped back in surprise . |
| 10 | He had had to conceal his revulsion at the creased and thumbed photographs handed round from desk to desk at school — those grey girls with their balloon breasts and gaping hairy forks . |
| 11 | While Ambrose earns wickets for his colleagues merely by dint of his presence at the other end , one timely intrusion at Chelmsford dispelled any notions of sloth . |
| 12 | In his Beverly Hills suit and hand-painted 1950s tie , Kaufman looked like a divorce lawyer in ‘ LA Law ’ ; his presence at the Tory Party 's autumn festival could be explained only by the need to earn a crust ; he had been invited by the BBC , no doubt , to comment on the proceedings . |
| 13 | When the final draft was completed , shortly after midnight in his suite at the Imperial Hotel , it was made known that he would have nothing to say to markets on this occasion . |
| 14 | Imagining his grandfather turning in his grave at the very thought , he paid £120 to repair the old one . |
| 15 | But having had his look at the outside Phar Lap returned to join the rest of the pack , and though he remained at the rear he was going very easily . |
| 16 | Cashed his cheque at the High Street bank . |
| 17 | The Club and Institute Union was officially formed in London on June 14 , 1862 and a few months later Henry Solly resigned his pulpit at the English Presbyterian Church in Lancaster to become the first fulltime paid secretary of the Union . |
| 18 | Mr Redwood used his debut at the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen at the weekend to ram home this message , which will have special meaning for Welsh-speaking communities in North Wales . |
| 19 | If he is not saying that he would repeal the increase in VAT , he is simply speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time . |
| 20 | And then , of course , there is Steve Bone blowing as many saxes as he can fit in his mouth at the same time . |
| 21 | Colleagues heard that Reagan pestered North about the hostages two or three times a week ; McFarlane , probably the transmitter of the pestering , remembered that he would barely open his mouth at the 9.30 briefing before the President would ask , ‘ Anything new on the hostages ? ’ |
| 22 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 23 | After he died of a heart attack in 1968 on the dock next to his boat at the Waikiki Yacht Club , his ashes were scattered over Kalahuewehe break . |
| 24 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 25 | Politburo ‘ conservatives ’ hardly had a coherent programme , and their numbers were subject to continual attrition ( Ligachev , who left the leadership after his defeat at the 28th Congress , was a notable casualty ) . |
| 26 | According to Bede , who records the death of Penda in the battle of the Winwaed , which he places in 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) , Penda ruled the Mercian nation for twenty-two years from his victory at Hatfield to his defeat at the Winwaed ( HE 11 , 20 ) , that is from 633 to 655 . |
| 27 | And if there was any one reason which , more than any other , ensured his defeat at the ensuing general election , then surely it was the inability of the trade union movement to assume during what had therefore become the winter of discontent , the responsibility required of them as a justification of the power and influence they claimed . |
| 28 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 29 | Tony asked , suspecting that Freddie had lost his nerve at the last minute . |
| 30 | Dr Peter Clarke , SCOTVEC 's Chairman , expressed his pleasure at the continued growth in National Certificate in typical style at a recent conference . |