Example sentences of "at his [noun] [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 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
| 11 | The bleeper attached to his belt suddenly shrilled into life and after silencing it he eased the hook from the mouth of the pike thrashing about at his feet and brushed it back into the water with the side of his boot . |
| 12 | He extracted a small , oddly-shaped , yellow and white stone from the bag at his feet and offered it to her . |
| 13 | Despite his terror of darkness and subterranean places , he wanted the ground to open at his feet and swallow him into its blackest hole . |
| 14 | The hawk which Aldebrand carries upon his wrist is trained to swoop at his aggressor and attack them with its beak and claws . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She risked a look at his expression and saw he was entirely serious . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He nibbled at his food and studied her reflectively . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Maggie was a bit shaken at his silence and knew she was once again blushing . |
| 23 | He was aware that Ballater was looking at his hands and assured him that he could wield a spade perfectly well . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She glanced at his face and found it engrossed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , you 'd better telephone Sam at his office and let him have my suggestions . ’ |