Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [be] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shirt is frayed at the sleeves where he has rolled back the cuffs , his skin shows brown down the open front , there are small dark hairs , a glistening drop of sweat . |
| 2 | Already his mouth was watering at the prospect of sinking his teeth into a thick slice of bread liberally spread with best butter and sprinkled with sugar from one of the big sacks standing in the corner . |
| 3 | He says it 's hard in a new league with new players but his job is to look at the positive things and not the negative ones . |
| 4 | The critic must study the text with the maximum degree of attention to all its parts ( Richards suggests ( 1970 : 317 ) that four poems may be too many for a week 's reading ) , but his aim is to arrive at the ‘ relevant mental condition ’ ( Richards 1970 : 11 ) associated with it , and then to judge this mental condition according to the principles outlined above . |
| 5 | His leisure was spent at the Western Club and , on Saturday afternoons , at Prestwick Golf Club . |
| 6 | His wife is standing at the window , looking out at the rain . |
| 7 | Later , an American naval officer and his wife were arrested at a roadblock . |
| 8 | This sense of his irreplaceability was reinforced at the last moment by the dramatic and threatening events of the Cuban Missile Crisis , which began just six days before the French voters went to the polls . |
| 9 | His jacket was ripped at the armpit . |
| 10 | The reason why there is no increase in output is that the typical supplier has correctly realized that the price on his island is rising at the same rate as the average level of prices , and there has therefore been no change in his relative price and so no incentive to raise output above its natural level . |
| 11 | One evening Atkins and his colleague were sitting at the factory exit . |
| 12 | His lordship was standing at the archway that led into the ballroom . |
| 13 | ‘ The decision to meet Sakharov 's demand and save his life was taken at the highest level , evidently at a meeting of the politbureau . |
| 14 | There was a booming sound in his skull that came in waves , and his vision was going at the edges , like burning paper dwindling and darkening . |
| 15 | Interesting , then , that his book was published at a time when the Western world was still recoiling after the oil sheikhs ' first shock to our system . |
| 16 | His statement was reported at the end of a three-day visit by Yeltsin [ see p. 38772 ] . |
| 17 | His childhood was spent at the mission station in the village of Siaochang , southern Hopei . |
| 18 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 19 | His mother was aching at the evidence before them both ; her ache transmitted itself through her flesh like a smell , and he absorbed it . |
| 20 | If the offer or approach is not made by the ultimate offeror or potential offeror , then Rule 1(b) requires that his identity be disclosed at the outset . |
| 21 | His protest was directed at the midsummer 's day four-mile ‘ exclusion zone ’ at Stonehenge , imposed by Salisbury District Council and confirmed by the Home Secretary . |
| 22 | The second man comes , he says the same thing and his brother 's waiting at the gate and she goes only if you fuck me ! |