Example sentences of "at his [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled a little , and with the ice broken they discussed dogs until he looked at his watch and said he would have to go . |
| 2 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 3 | He was always looking at his watch and saying he 'd have to go and — ’ |
| 4 | Albert looked at his watch and found it was only six , but thought it gratuitous to say so . |
| 5 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 6 | He pestered anyone who came along to look at his back and examine it for spots . |
| 7 | When they had gone , Cramer used the phone in the garage to put through a call to Sir Harry Marriott at his home and give him the news — the phone was more secure than a police radio band . |
| 8 | Gilbert had joined Jimmy on his knees , clutching at his head and shaking it madly , even though the noise had ceased . |
| 9 | William smiled at his wife and gave her a large wink . |
| 10 | The hawk which Aldebrand carries upon his wrist is trained to swoop at his aggressor and attack them with its beak and claws . |
| 11 | He tugged at his knife but had it only half-drawn when the huge taloned paw of the bear smashed his head as if it was a rotten apple . |
| 12 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 13 | She risked a look at his expression and saw he was entirely serious . |
| 14 | Alongside Hopper , Fonda was a very stable character , loved his wife and wanted for little , except self-fulfilment , which gnawed away at his mind and caused him to drink and trip occasionally on LSD . |
| 15 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 16 | He nibbled at his food and studied her reflectively . |
| 17 | ‘ He bumbled and tugged at his ear and said he hoped I might call again at a more opportune moment , though I did not believe a word of it . |
| 18 | Maggie was a bit shaken at his silence and knew she was once again blushing . |
| 19 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 20 | She glanced at his face and found it engrossed . |
| 21 | It was only that faint burr in his voice which hinted at his background and made her realise that behind the elegant façade lay pure steel . |
| 22 | If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it . |
| 23 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 24 | It swung open at his touch but closing it , as always , was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which , no matter how frequent his visits , would always be alien territory . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , you 'd better telephone Sam at his office and let him have my suggestions . ’ |
| 26 | The man glances at his picture and waves him through . |
| 27 | It was hard enough to stare at his photograph and make it come to life , but it was impossible to imagine the figure in the picture living in the sort of conditions which Normandin and others had described . |
| 28 | The other men in the canoe had laughed at his impatience and berated him for pointing . |