Example sentences of "at his [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also quite charming , with an attractive dry sense of humour , as I soon discovered over a beautifully prepared meal at his spacious London home . |
| 2 | A glimpse of his flamboyant lifestyle can be seen at his former Nottinghamshire home , NEWSTEAD ABBEY , a beautifully preserved tribute to this great Romantic . |
| 3 | Li Shai Tung sat back in his chair , looking about him at his fellow T'ang . |
| 4 | The church became increasingly involved with human rights work : Romero made a practice of announcing the week 's toll of human rights violations at his packed Sunday sermons and the Socorro Juridico , the Archbishop 's legal aid office , became an internationally recognized source of independent information on the repression . |
| 5 | And then he was off at his usual Nelson pace , shaking off sophistication eagerly . |
| 6 | After reading of Helen Wright 's good fortune in September Amicus Ivan McNeill wrote to tell me of his luck in winning a three day family trip to Euro Disney in a free draw organised at his local Esso petrol station in Ballymena , County Antrim . |
| 7 | During several periods of in-patient treatment at his local NHS mental illness unit , he was prescribed more benzodiazepines : Halcion , Temazepam , Valium . |
| 8 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 9 | He watched one of last year 's American purchases Celestial Key storm home at his local Pontefract track yesterday and his trips have paid off many times in the past . |
| 10 | The next day Bill had X-rays at his local Prince Charles Hospital and his terrible injuries were discovered . |
| 11 | The general concept of Kinmount , with its vast Soanic central saloon rising into a tribune gallery and a lantern tower , was reproduced in neo-Tudor form as his ambitious enlargement of Saltoun , East Lothian ( 1817 ) ; without the lantern tower , at his neo-Classical Adderston , Northumberland ( 1819 ) and the much larger Camperdown , Dundee ( 1821–28 ) ; and , at Blairquhan , Ayrshire ( 1820 ) where he retained the lantern tower but began to experiment with asymmetrical planning and to adopt more archaeologically correct Tudor forms , following the example of William Wilkins ' Tregothnan ( 1816 ) and Dalmeny ( 1814 ) . |
| 12 | The booing dates back to Cooper 's early days at his native Durham Wasps . |
| 13 | Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . |
| 14 | Stanley had the saw running — we used to sell a few logs in them days — when all of a sudden he hears an explosion and thinks somebody 's having a go at his precious Lagonda . |
| 15 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 16 | There had been a war of attrition between the two since Darrel had composed a satire , ridiculing Sir John 's mock-Italian attempts at his beloved Longleat , the then home of the Thynnes . |
| 17 | He was holding a bat at his nearby Brize Norton ground at the age of 6 and was in the village side at 11 . |
| 18 | Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Ford , commanding officer of the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers , twisted in his saddle and stared anxiously at his senior Major who , because he was deaf , had heard nothing . |
| 19 | However , as he gazed lovingly over at his beautiful Laura , gently rocking the tiny babies in her arms , he knew that the true definition of his deep joy and delight lay in the collective noun : a pride of lions ! |