Example sentences of "at his [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at his watch again and wondered if it was time to intervene . |
| 2 | Plummer looked at his watch again and sighed . |
| 3 | He looked at his watch pointedly as they met . |
| 4 | Artemis threw the reins at his head so that nothing would check him . |
| 5 | This led to the belief that Christ 's divine nature originated at his birth rather than at his baptism . |
| 6 | When Nathaniel Sherman awoke and saw where he was , he had looked at his wife shamefacedly and agreed immediately to her request to be driven to the imperial capital at Hue where the emperor of Annam was due to celebrate the Tet festival the following day . |
| 7 | He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become . |
| 8 | He looked at me and then sucked at his pipe again and shrugged his shoulders . |
| 9 | Jack dabbed at his chin again and went to the window to watch for Charlie . |
| 10 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |
| 11 | Devastated , within a few months Kirchner committed suicide at his Davos home where he had lived since World War I. The museum has been designed by the young team of Zurich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer who won the brief in 1989 . |
| 12 | Regular sums of hard currency were put at his disposal so that he or his aides could buy whatever the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii wished . |
| 13 | THE family of a father mown down by a suspected drink-driver wept at his funeral yesterday and spoke of forgiveness . |
| 14 | There was a presence at his side now and he saw in surprise that it was Barbara . |
| 15 | I said no ! ’ she screamed , slapping at his hand blindly as she finally managed to drag her bruised mouth from his . |
| 16 | The driver , who was normally employed as a fitter , but had some driving experience with the Corporation , was acting as a relief driver and was found to be principally to blame for the accident , because of his lack of experience , which resulted in his letting the car take the curve at too great a speed and the conductor for applying the hand brake at his end so as to lock the wheels ; he had received no instruction on the proper procedure . |
| 17 | He carried on ripping and tearing at his legs relentlessly and with sickening ferocity , even drawing blood at times . |
| 18 | ‘ He described quite graphically — to me personally — how he felt with it seeping through the blindfold and beginning to sting and then burn at his eyes so that he was finally forced to open them in order to blink . |
| 19 | Moreover , he was chuckling and making humorous observations to Fleury in Hindustani , his eyes gleaming as black as anthracite , pointing at his neck occasionally and shaking his head , as if over an unusually successful jest . |
| 20 | When we chatted , Hastings looked as composed as if he 'd just spent the afternoon at his office rather than sending Wales homeward to Cardiff to think again . |
| 21 | He felt an urge to cup them in his hands , but gulped at his beer savagely and prised his eyes away . |
| 22 | And the inconvenience will be only slight , he can always take up residence at his college again until their time 's up . ’ |
| 23 | The owner of Peggotty 's Bakery and Cafe , Mr John Sowerby , arranged for other people who work with food to meet at his cafe so that to make the day cost-effective . |
| 24 | I laughed at his coat once and he pushed me off a bar stool . ’ |
| 25 | He looked at his son again and smiled , pleased by what he saw . |
| 26 | Harry pulled a face at his brother now as Ellen put in quickly , ‘ The Hallidays too and their cousins , two young ladies who are staying with them . ’ |