Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLEASURE at the news that Paul Gascoigne is to begin his long-awaited comeback at the end of this month is matched by admiration for an unpublicised example of the Tottenham Terror 's generosity off the field . |
| 2 | He continued to travel north , despite frequent attacks of gout from the age of fifty , even after surviving the amputation of his right leg at the age of seventy-seven in 1750 . |
| 3 | Last season was Bradl 's second as a factory NSR250 rider and he was fourth in the world championship , despite breaking his right ankle at Assen and missing three GPs . |
| 4 | Indeed , the epitome of an English gentleman was one who stood on the deck while his ship sunk beneath him , his upper lip stiff , his cap straight and his right hand at the salute . |
| 5 | Slowly he subsided into the chair again , pulling open a drawer by his right hand at the same time . |
| 6 | In fact , his total figure at the 11th was almost as much as some took for just one hole . |
| 7 | The following exhibitions were reported in last month 's issue and deserve note before they close : Hamish Fulton 's elegant installation of wall texts and photographs of his walks , the most handsome exhibition to have been held at Annely Juda ( to 6 March ) , two large sculptures by Mario Merz and new paintings and charcoal drawings , the best of his career , by Leon Kossoff at Anthony d'Offay ( to 6 March ) , Michael Young 's new sand paintings at Turske-Hue-Williams ( to 15 March ) , ‘ Out of Sight Out of Mind ’ , Nicholas Logsdail 's survey of international painting and sculpture 1965–1975 at Lisson ( to 20 March ) , Michael Landy 's ‘ Warning Signs ’ at Karsten Schubert ( to 6 March ) , new paintings by Arturo di Stefano , coinciding with his retrospective survey at Liverpool 's Walker Art Gallery , at Purdy Hicks ( to 6 March ) , new works by Riccardo Cinalli , featuring in a touring exhibition organised by the Accademia Italiana , at Long and Ryle ( to 19 March ) , and print exhibitions of Jim Dine at Waddington Graphics ( to 14 March ) and Robert Ryman at Victoria Miro ( to 29 March ) . |
| 8 | Besides groups of bronze statuettes by Degas and Henry Moore , notable works include Miró 's ‘ Tëte ’ ( 1974 ) , ‘ Oedipus II ’ ( 1962 ) , a stone and bronze sculpture by William Turnbull , Kim Lim 's ‘ River-Stone ’ , a new standing block of Calacatta Siena marble , delicately decorated with incisions , a vast wall sculpture ( 1987 ) created by Mimmo Paladino from gold and encaustic and bronze , and Julian Schnabel 's ‘ Jacqueline ’ , a bronze bust of his former wife mounted on a steel platform and shown at his retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1987 . |
| 9 | Phillip King has attracted surprisingly modest attention in the ten years since his retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1981 but , as Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art until 1990 , he has shaped the styles of his students and of artists such as Richard Deacon , who had left the college before his arrival . |
| 10 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |
| 11 | Despite Karajan 's meteoric ascent to positions of power and influence after Furtwängler 's death in 1954 and Böhm 's dismission from Vienna some months later , it is clear that Karajan 's ultimate aim was not power but independence : hence the contract for life with the Berlin Philharmonic , hence the founding in 1967 of the Salzburg Easter Festival , brilliantly engineered and financed by Karajan after his return to influence in Salzburg and his eight-year reign at the Vienna State Opera . |
| 12 | Irked by the very qualities which had once so attracted him — her girlishness and inconsequential chatter — Hardy gradually excluded Emma from his professional life at a time when his fame as a novelist was steadily growing , and , from about 1890 , frankly looked outside his marriage for companionship . |
| 13 | Jones , who started his professional career at Wimbledon before moving on to Leeds , Sheffield United and then Chelsea , said he had returned a better player . |
| 14 | The Duke did his stately bow at that and then Donald was calling for another song . |
| 15 | Tom gave his usual frown at the appearance of uninvited intrusion . |
| 16 | Henri asked , losing his usual composure at the thought . |
| 17 | ‘ Not his usual self at all , ’ said Fenniway . |
| 18 | Not his usual self at all , one way or another . |
| 19 | Guillamon and Bicker were there as well as Ratagan and Murtach , and Isay took up his usual post at the door . |
| 20 | Mr Reynolds was encouraged to take plenty of fluids orally ( up to litres per day ) including nourishing substances and to gradually increase his diet until it was equivalent to his usual intake at home . |
| 21 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 22 | Shelley looked across at Abuelo , sitting in his usual place at the head of the table . |
| 23 | Someone laid a spear or a piece of wood at the top of the steps whilst the hospitaller was at his usual place at the far end of the parapet walk , near Salt Tower . ’ |
| 24 | That would be his usual role at these parties . |
| 25 | It is many years since my last confession and I confess in the face of God and in the hope of his divine mercy at the imminent approach of death . ’ |
| 26 | Masefield 's years in training on the Conway and his scant year at sea were among many experiences in his early life in which he pursued a quest for beauty , in nature and in man , a quest whose romantic zest was combined with a strong interest in technical matters , in the structure and working of everyday . |
| 27 | TREVOR FRANCIS broke a three-year silence yesterday to talk about the scar left by his controversial sacking at QPR . |
| 28 | As the England striker prepares for today 's potentially explosive clash at Spurs , the Gunners chief gave Wright unreserved support despite his controversial display at Southampton last weekend . |
| 29 | It was impossible for Maradona to play in Rome because of the Pounds 2.5m he owes the Italian tax authorities following his turbulent spell at Napoli , where two inspired Championships were overshadowed by sordid drug and racketeering allegations . |
| 30 | And despite the fact that he is unveiling his Cicciolina-inspired work at a time when sexually-adventurous artists are regularly harassed , progressive museum directors arrested on obscenity charges , and an increasing number of independent films slapped with the dreaded X-rating — a proven box-office poison — Koons says he is not worried about achieving his goals . |