Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His idiosyncratic usage is at once fascinating for analysis and a warning against making unwary generalisations about lyric poetry . |
| 2 | Now Nicholas 's parents and his old school are at loggerheads . |
| 3 | Lord Haw-Haw , the British traitor who goes here by the name of Froelich , but whose real name is William Joyce and whose voice millions of English listen to on the radio every night , and his English wife were at the party , but I avoided them . ’ |
| 4 | The pose had thrust his hips sideways as he leant at a slight angle and his free hand was at the level of his pelvis , thumb hooked into the waistband of his jeans , fingers doubled into a loose fist at the top of his hard , powerful thigh . |
| 5 | His official car was at the kerb . |
| 6 | Examples of his boldly-brushed observations are at Borgenicht until 15 May . |
| 7 | His chief seat was at Beaudesert , a low hill above Henley-in-Arden in Warwickshire , where extensive earthworks of the family castle still remain . |
| 8 | The fury aroused by his anti-Pitt eloquence was at once frightening and flattering to his vanity . |
| 9 | Examples of his interior decoration are at Croft Castle , Herefordshire ( 1765 ) , Gaines in Whitbourne , Herefordshire ( c .1765 ) , and Shipton Hall , Shropshire : of his monuments , in the Gothic and rococo modes respectively , those to Sir Whitmore Acton in Acton Round church , Shropshire ( 1763 ) , and to Mary Morhall ( d . |
| 10 | As with earlier generations of his Quaker family , his secondary education was at Bootham School , York . |
| 11 | His harsh manner was at odds with his appearance — sleek black hair lay in gentle waves , and even when he was n't running his hands through it it always looked windblown like now , making him seem casual and relaxed . |
| 12 | If he did , he was bound to conclude that his vital interests were at stake . |
| 13 | And as we shall see in the next chapter , his secular music was at least equally various . |
| 14 | His new show is at Plymouth , where he studied as a schoolboy before going on to Somerset College of Art . |
| 15 | His solemn burial was at Constantinople alongside the cenotaphs of the twelve apostles which he had placed in the church of the apostles on the city 's highest hill . |
| 16 | While Dean of Leighlin he hunted on the banks of the Barrow but his main residence was at Carrickblacker where he kept a stable of fine horses and in 1786 imported Hungarian hares to improve the native stock . |