Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [conj] at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What importance is the colour of his attire when at the end of many a day the master and his bullying gang 's regalia will all doubtless be red with the blood of the helpless abused fox . |
| 2 | In sudden abandon she allowed her arms to creep up round his neck , her fingers to sink into the short hair at the back of his head while at the same time parting her lips and welcoming the exciting exploration of his tongue . |
| 3 | She longed to fall into his arms and at the same time to run away . |
| 4 | He seemed to be having difficulty in controlling the muscles which worked in his forehead and at the corners of his mouth . |
| 5 | He claims he has lost over £250,000 in his life and at the age of 40 is forced to survive on state benefits of £63 . |
| 6 | Simon Parsons was last in his semi but at the line he was closing on Vekic of Jugoslavia . |
| 7 | The Collector , trying to prise the Padre 's fingers from his throat and at the same time turn his head , was just able to see a pink young face with a blond moustache surmounting a brilliant scarlet tunic . |
| 8 | She came round to his chair and put her big arms around his neck , aware of what her flesh would feel like on his skin and at the same time ashamed to be self-conscious . |
| 9 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 10 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 11 | She 'll have to go , he told himself , fearful for his sanity while at the mercy of Bessie 's constant chatter . |
| 12 | Angry at his ineffectiveness and at the way Rohmer had made him a bystander in this nightmare , Cardiff followed them back through the savage whirlwinds towards the office block . |
| 13 | Vines caught at his feet and at the rope round his neck . |
| 14 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 15 | Looking back on it he was amazed both at his boldness and at the seeming inevitability and naturalness of that first encounter . |
| 16 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |