Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 2 | He was well pleased with the fruits that his Technique bore at the school . |
| 3 | His coming displayed no jot of his inner feelings , though his heart sank at the array of knee breeches and crinolines , and at last it occurred to him that the lunatics he had met upstairs were in Dickensian dress . |
| 4 | Harry Tisch , 63 , the former East German trade union ( FDGB ) leader [ see pp. 37826 ; 37024 ] , became the first former East German leader to face trial when his case opened at a Berlin court on Jan. 29 . |
| 5 | When his trial opened at the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 22 , however , he caused widespread consternation by pleading not guilty to the charges of making illegal payments . |
| 6 | Of the two archers the younger was tall and fair with a ruddy complexion , the other was of medium height and stalwart build , his hair grizzled at the temples , his eyes grey , his mouth well set above a firm chin , and his expression one of habitual good-humour , as though of a man at peace with himself if not with the world . |
| 7 | Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him . |
| 8 | His mouth twitched at the corner . |
| 9 | His mouth twitched at the corner . |
| 10 | He was n't too upset when at first his mind rebelled at the change of pace — a cluck or two was sufficient to make his straying hand release an unanswered letter , a firmer reprimand put aside his list of tasks for the next day . |
| 11 | His rustiness showed at the point when he was asked to accelerate . |
| 12 | ‘ Indeed … ’ began Wu Shih , then stopped , turning as his Chancellor appeared at the far end of the gallery . |
| 13 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |
| 14 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 15 | It was just what his team needed at the end of a game in which they had laboured to overcome an unambitious Chelsea . |
| 16 | An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar . |
| 17 | His wife appeared at the top of the stairs wearing a dressing-gown of many colours . |
| 18 | He is confident he will gain the 6pc swing needed to secure the seat and says a Labour victory will ‘ finish off ’ what his colleague started at the last election in 1987 . |
| 19 | Stretching and yawning , his daughter stood at the door of Dai Huang 's big house . |
| 20 | Just a minute before we start but er why are you the back duty for June when his licence finished at the end of March ? |
| 21 | Although there was essentially nothing ‘ new ’ in what he said , his statement came at the end of the economic recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s , during which time member states had turned economically ‘ inwards ’ , defending their national markets against European competition . |
| 22 | His stomach lurched at the thought of today . |
| 23 | Already his stomach heaved at the prospect of swallowing and digesting the hateful thing . |
| 24 | His stomach rebelled at the mere thought of food , but he knew he must not miss this golden opportunity to put something by for another day . |
| 25 | His stomach shrank at the sight . |
| 26 | Parson 's interest in music began in the early-'70s , but his Bowie-fandom foundered at the Aladdin Sane gig at Earl 's Court in 1973 . |
| 27 | His thesis looked at the economic and environmental arguments over 40 and 44 tonne lorries . |
| 28 | He and his officer rode at the head of their squadron , and were thus at the very tip of the advancing French army . |
| 29 | He 'd seen his mother sat at the end of the bed ages after she was dead , you know . |
| 30 | Tony and his mother arrived at the farmhouse and walked through the farmyard . |