Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | One boy called Haile Nehari actually escaped from prison — he had been put there after his sling-shot aimed at a pigeon hit an Ethiopian soldier instead . |
| 2 | He went to a party after his mother collapsed at their home in West London and even invited two school pals to stay . |
| 3 | RANGERS manager Walter Smith refuses to take winning this season 's Premier League title for granted — despite his side cruising at the top . |
| 4 | Horses were his love and he had spent the best years of his life working at the Galloway stables . |
| 5 | It may be significant , as S.D. Keynes has suggested , that the chapters which bear most signs of his influence come at the end , and that their subject matter is closely related to that of the tracts entered before the Letter . |
| 6 | He flicked back the cuff of his jacket to glance at his watch and as he did so he saw that he was still carrying Maidstone 's hat . |
| 7 | His powder-trail prose is composed of bleak trigger-finger sketches of gay oppression , with the barrel of his rage aimed at the heart of unseeing , uncaring Heterosoc . |
| 8 | Could a taxi driver be deprived of his licence to operate at Heathrow because of misconduct , without being given a chance to put his side of the story ? |
| 9 | She said something to the man who was with her , a thickset , dark-featured fellow , who stood with his hands in the pockets of his anorak frowning at the flood water . |
| 10 | I heard him lock the chamber door and , a few minutes later , the mewing of his cat scratching at the wood for admittance . |
| 11 | A small survey of Lichtenstein 's art opens at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , next month , with a really comprehensive exhibition of his work following at the Guggenheim Museum , New York , in May . |
| 12 | The sound of his chainsaw started at dawn and did n't stop until dusk , at which point he started hauling the product of his day 's labour into the woodshed . |
| 13 | His heart was tossed into a fire , his head stuck on a pike on London Bridge , and the four quarters of his body displayed at Newcastle , Berwick , Perth and Aberdeen . |
| 14 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 15 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 16 | On top of the CPRE work , he spends a quarter of his time teaching at the National Film School . |
| 17 | Rory did n't really know Fergus Urvill very well ; although he did sometimes visit Lochgair , he spoke differently — posher — and seemed to spend a lot of his time shooting at birds and animals with other rich people . |
| 18 | He bent his head and his hot mouth closed hungrily over her breast while she offered it to him with one hand , her head thrown back , eyes closed , surrendering to the hot , dark feel of his mouth sucking at her nipple . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , you have no need to kill Havvie , ’ said Jared Tunstall drily , pulling his watch out of his pocket to look at it . |
| 20 | A MAN fell through the floor of his garden shed at Hythe in Kent — and uncovered five World War Two mortar bombs . |
| 21 | As he turned the corner away from the house and towards the train station , Endill was sure he saw the shape of his father standing at one of the upstairs windows , watching him go . |
| 22 | He squinted out of the corner of his eye to look at Irina . |
| 23 | more reluctant to so infer , particularly where the applicant did not know of his right to object at that stage . |
| 24 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 25 | The early morning mist was lifting above the Great Stukeley lanes to reveal a glorious day as Mr Major arrived with his wife to vote at the village hall . |
| 26 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 27 | is a qualified accountant ( FCCA ) and plans to move back to Suffolk with his family to live at Glemsford near Sudbury . |
| 28 | In the brief flare of the lighter she saw he was lying back hands clasped under his head staring at the ceiling . |
| 29 | The House of Lords held , in effect , that since the applicant was arguing that he had a contractual right under his lease to remain at the lower rent , he was asserting private law rights and so could raise the defence in the possession proceedings in the County Court and did not have to raise it by means of an AJR . |
| 30 | He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato . |