Example sentences of "at [noun prp] [conj] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was invented by Mr Gordon as a rapid means of transport between his house at Monte and his office in Funchal . |
| 2 | By now Haslam was firmly on the management ladder at ICI and his broad experience of a wide variety of jobs and functions under the company 's rotation scheme was clearly paying dividends . |
| 3 | She looked around at Sacco and his friends , who were sheepishly climbing down again . |
| 4 | He looked at Angus and his smile faded . |
| 5 | Corbett suddenly remembered his last meeting with the nuns at Godstowe and his heart began to pound . |
| 6 | Drifter flowed up the gallop in a smooth fast rhythm and Tremayne said he would have a good chance at Worcester if his blood was right . |
| 7 | The British Deaf Scout movement was born in 1910 when the Headmaster of the Royal Cross School , Preston , Mr. J.G. Shaw , was on a motor tour of Yorkshire during his July holiday , and got into severe difficulties at Skipton when his car ran off the road and broke down . |
| 8 | Mr Evans looked at Carrie and his look made her tremble . |
| 9 | He looked at Carrie and his eyes sparked with triumph . |
| 10 | There remains one major difference between the punter 's chances with , say , Cool Ground or Twin Oaks at Aintree and his prospects with Messrs Major , Kinnock or Ashdown . |
| 11 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 12 | ‘ Gorelli said he was loyal , ’ and he looked across at Jed and his eyes glittered . |
| 13 | Teleprompter himself was back to try to lift another mammoth American prize : but though he had run second to Shadeed in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot since his wonderful victory in Chicago , another English challenger , Shergar 's half-brother Shernazar , was more strongly fancied , for he had beaten Slip Anchor at Kempton Park in September . |
| 14 | He was at Tuwaithah because his much-loved sister had married an Israeli Air Force pilot . |
| 15 | Kold will have taken great encouragement from last weekend 's results at Wembley when his Danish players won two of the five titles , as there was undoubtedly some concern in European badminton after the Asians completely dominated the Barcelona finals . |
| 16 | He stopped , took one look at Celia and his face broke into a broad grin . |
| 17 | The former Charlton youngster has had a harrowing time at Wednesday since his £250,000 move in January last year — but is aiming to finally win over the Hillsborough boo-boys . |
| 18 | Was some bastard getting at Colm because his father was English ? |
| 19 | Cynog Dafis , the Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion & Pembroke North , was judged " Best Newcomer " for articulating the " Green Philosophy " at Westminster and his energetic campaign for his Energy Conservation Bill . |
| 20 | And Jed would be smiling , not at Zervos and his torrent of language , but at the memory of the $10,000 , the eight thousand $1.25s , that he had thrown in Creed 's face . |
| 21 | First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog . |
| 22 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 23 | Introductions completed , Hawkins looked at Talbot and his four officers and said : ‘ The first question in your minds , of course , gentlemen , is why I have brought two civilians with me . |
| 24 | A Welsh miner and his wife were on passage on the " Islay " to Port Askaig to join the workers at Ballygrant when his wife was taken ill . |
| 25 | His initiative in calling together the World Religions at Assisi and his message to the annual meeting of World Religions each year since Assisi shows how important he considers interreligious understanding and co-operation . |
| 26 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |
| 27 | he has studied at Edinburgh and his son ( aged 8 ) speaks very good English . |
| 28 | In 1515 they bribed the Electors to vote in the Emperor Charles V and then farmed his silver mines at Guadalcanal and his mercury mines at Almaden . |
| 29 | Robert McLaren , 30 , made the claim at the High Court sitting at Perth when his brother was accused of endangering his life and attempting to murder him . |
| 30 | The bulk of Mar 's forces were still with him at Perth and his total force was now perhaps 10,000 strong ; the Duke of Argyll , in command of George I 's army in Scotland , had no more than 4000 . |