Example sentences of "[noun] at his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penry stretched out his long legs to glower at his battered espadrilles . |
| 2 | No , he was n't — one glance at his chilling expression convinced her of that . |
| 3 | Harry could have listened to this man for hours on end simply reading the telephone directory , yet one glance at his absurd and dishevelled appearance would instantly have broken the trance . |
| 4 | One can not leave Wordsworth 's religion without a glance at his final years . |
| 5 | Fernando 's eyes were cold and expressionless once the horror and surprise had faded and as Ruth made pointless reminiscent remarks in a voice that was barely her own she saw him take a worried sidelong glance at his beautiful companion . |
| 6 | Damian sat opposite her , and every glance at his tough face only underlined her rash promise to her . |
| 7 | When , in a voice that is neither , he sings ‘ My arms were sure and strong ’ , a glance at his thin arms and meagre frame brings you dangerously close to a belly-laugh . ’ |
| 8 | Freddie had managed to get into the hall by now , although even here his hostess had contrived to place her formidable bulk before the front door , her expression revealing , only too plainly , her disappointment at his early departure and her failure at not having conducted the evening more to her advantage . |
| 9 | The male has an extra pair of legs at his front end , called ovigerous legs . |
| 10 | Detectives say Spiro , 46 , had calmly walked from bedroom to bedroom at his rented home near San Diego and killed his family ‘ execution-style ’ . |
| 11 | Steve Pyle greeted Laing with an attempt at his usual geniality . |
| 12 | Aaron and McGuire ( 1970 ) derived from assumptions about individual utility functions and the procedure determining public goods supply an explicit allocation formula , which values the ith person 's consumption of the public good at his marginal rate of substitution between the public good and income ( using the conditions for the optimum supply of the public good discussed in Lecture 16 ) . |
| 13 | Nearer home , he is a stalwart of the chess club at his present school , Yarm School junior department , and he plays for Stokesley in the senior division of the chess league . |
| 14 | Her brief confusion at his sudden rejection of her had evaporated ; now she could see things very clearly indeed , and the hot flush of embarrassment washed over her . |
| 15 | Her face clouded over in confusion at his curt tone , and another set of emotions rioted through him . |
| 16 | More details have come to light about AT&T Microelectronics ‘ Hobbit ’ RISC chip : last we heard ( UX No 372 ) the hairy-footed little creature was being used by ex-Sun man Bernie La Croute at his pen-driven computer start-up Eo Corp . |
| 17 | The meteorology men told him his wind strengths at his chosen altitude of 50,000 feet , and he worked out he would make it in 5.4 hours flying at Mach . |
| 18 | The jibes of the kids at his scattered schools , which he attended sometimes for a token day or two to throw a sop to the government , struck him as neither here nor there . |
| 19 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 20 | ‘ As a cook , ’ she added tersely , making no attempt to hide her disgust at his silent insinuation . |
| 21 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 22 | He himself would visit Balbinder at his present school . |
| 23 | The Duke of Westminster cleared out the attics and sheds at his stately home near Chester to create more space . |
| 24 | Jane McLoughlin also met an ex-hacker who , since his self-cure , had been able to look back with some pleasure at his early hacking day 's : ‘ I 'd kick that machine of mine into life , sing a snatch of Yes . |
| 25 | She looked down with a fear that was also a pleasure at his stained , scarred hand . |
| 26 | Ranging from The Tallis Scholars latest , the completely inappropriate in this context Lamentations of Jeremiah , via Nigel Kennedy 's ‘ Just listen ’ , some of Sir Thomas Beecham 's classic lolli-pops , Carreras singing Verdi and de Falla , Ralph Downes at his Royal Festival Hall organ and John Harle 's saxophonic modern jazz tribute to Duke Ellington and , because I always like to include pianoforte , the début ( and very fine EMI Germany ) recording of the remarkable 21 years young , Lars Vogt . |
| 27 | The whole time that I was working at Erith with Wartberg I would journey right across London every Friday afternoon to see Gyggle at his new office . |
| 28 | Gina 's eyes sparkled with barely suppressed animosity at his blatant derision . |
| 29 | There was a frozen instant of surprised immobility at his startling appearance , before the four reacted . |
| 30 | She wanted to throw her lunch at his self-assured face . |