Example sentences of "at his [noun] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At his home his mother earnestly tried to fatten us up for our adventure ahead , as only the Chinese know how . |
| 2 | At his feet their five-year-old , Wu , was waging a ferocious battle between two armies of miniature dragons , their tiny power packs making them seem almost alive . |
| 3 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 4 | By the 1730s he was considered by many to be the richest commoner in England , and at his death his income from landed property , coalmining , investments in government funds , and mortgage holdings was around £25,000 annually . |
| 5 | Restoration gossip that Norton lived at Richmond Palace , acquired at a cheap rate after the king 's execution , is puzzling ; his home at the time was actually Oatlands Park , near Weybridge , Surrey , and at his death his widow claimed to be penniless . |
| 6 | At his funeral his coffin was carried by the Headington Quarry morris men in morris rig . |