Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 2 | Take part of Lyly 's description of his hero at the beginning of Euphues , which deserves our attention as " the first novel in English " : The elaborate parallelistic structure of these two sentences has been displayed above by placing the parallelisms or structural equivalences , in brackets . |
| 3 | The Prime Minister and senior Cabinet colleagues gathered at the House of Commons Church … it was a fitting place for Nicholas Ridley 's memorial service , he 'd spent 33 years of his life at the centre of British politics . |
| 4 | During Austrian GP practice Simmons got the fright of his life at the top of Salzburgring 's terrifying Ostschliefe hill , where the outfits funnel through a 150mph tunnel of armco . |
| 5 | Carter had done his best in his campaign to capitalize on this negative mood , yet the margin of his success at the polls had been small . |
| 6 | Aussie scrum half Allan Langer is playing out of his skin at the moment and if ‘ Alfie ’ controls the open spaces at Wembley , it will be curtains . |
| 7 | He had accomplished nothing and he may well have meditated on the difference between his situation and that of his uncle at the Erfurt meeting with the German Princes in 1808 . |
| 8 | He visited the home of Simon Peter , was supported by well-to-do people and never encouraged Zacchaeus to dispose of the whole of his wealth at the time when he returned money to those he had cheated . |
| 9 | I wonder how Manzoni must have felt as he gazed out of his window at the Palazzo Belgioioso and the comings and goings of Prince Albercio ; the Prince rode out of the square each day on a horse , dressed in a bright general 's uniform , in order to review the private bodyguard he equipped and maintained . |
| 10 | A few credits shy of his degree at the University of Missouri , however , he took off for Los Angeles , ostensibly to attend art school , which he never did . |
| 11 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 12 | He thought of his bed at the Rorim ; then he thought of Madra in it , her warmth under him and her hands on his back , her hair in his mouth . |
| 13 | Little Nemo falling out of his bed at the end of every strip still brings a wry smile . |
| 14 | The inaugural exhibition of Maak , its name deriving from the initials of its directors and situated in Blackburn Road , is a group of nine sculptures by Phillip King ( to 5 October ) dating from the early years of his career and previously shown in the recent survey of his art at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 15 | At the moment New Yorkers can survey the length and breadth of his achievement at the galleries of the Americas Society on Park Avenue and coming up in January they can have a second look in a big retrospective of the artist 's work at the Studio Museum in Harlem . |
| 16 | His broadcast of 23 April was a shorter but equally powerful repeat performance of his address at the end of Barricades Week . |
| 17 | MICHAEL Fallon remains much the most favoured subject for our limerick competition , as in this pithy effort from Robert Friend of Cowshill up't top of Weardale : Mr Junior Minister Fallon , Dispensed unctuousness by the gallon , It was not to win votes , This ‘ soft soap ’ in quotes , But for care of his hair at the salon . |
| 18 | The nation was horrified as details emerged of his ordeal at the hands of the Provisional IRA . |
| 19 | A paperboy has been telling of his ordeal at the hands of a gunman . |
| 20 | Insiders also say the presence of his wife at the meetings contributed to his decision to pull out . |
| 21 | For when the Battle of the Somme broke out in July , Boelcke — having persuaded his seniors of his indispensability at the front — accounted for fiftyone planes with his ‘ Flying Circus ’ , of which twenty were his own personal bag . |
| 22 | Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time . |
| 23 | On the eve of a second major exhibition of his work at the Tate Gallery ( 17 June-6 September ) , curated , once again , by Richard Morphet and devoted , on this occasion , to his oil paintings , Hamilton spoke to Roger Bevan of his career , his relationship with dealers , the continuing attraction of television , his declining interest in America and his delight in discovering that he had been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists and students . |
| 24 | When early in 1952 he held an exhibition of his work at the Archer Gallery in Notting Hill , he rang up Minton and invited him to see it . |
| 25 | Bancks published these lines in 1730 describing the discomforts of his work at the loom : |
| 26 | She caught a glimpse of his paleness at the window of the bathroom on the first floor . |
| 27 | This was an even earlier start than Charlie Chaplin , who was thrust on stage to sing in place of his mother at the age of five . |
| 28 | Elvis Costello called him a genius , and Jonathan Demme made an in-concert film of his appearance at the Hollywood Bowl . |
| 29 | She had said those words to him many times , reminding him of his indoctrination at the hands of Por Tanssie 's officials . |
| 30 | Seeing the Man approach Creggan pulled away and with one final lunge of his beak at the flesh hopped back and up on to the branch across his cage . |