Example sentences of "[adv prt] his [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man opposite her threw down his Reveille at the same moment , and their eyes met . |
| 2 | He glanced over his shoulder at the crowd of people . |
| 3 | George came last , carrying an attaché case of papers and looking over his shoulder at the train as if wondering if he 'd forgotten anything . |
| 4 | He gestured over his shoulder at the other members of the golfing Press . |
| 5 | Whitlock took a sip of beer then glanced over his shoulder at the entrance . |
| 6 | I peered over his shoulder at the spidery script . |
| 7 | Richie glanced over his shoulder at the young PC pacing behind them . |
| 8 | Then he laughed over his shoulder at the Mason . |
| 9 | He is a tall , thin , stooped man , with silvery grey hair , deeply receding at the temples , curling over his collar at the back . |
| 10 | Harry 's own half-formed suspicions tended to focus on him because Clare Mallender had been seen mooning over his photograph at the Skein of Geese two weeks before her death . |
| 11 | He takes over his job at the telecommunications regulator on 1 April . |
| 12 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance comittee . |
| 13 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance committee . |
| 14 | He promised to pay off his debt at the rate of 20 marks a year . |
| 15 | Twenty minutes later , after a silent , worried drive , Herr Nordern dropped off his wife at the Welfare Centre . |
| 16 | He had them set up his bier at the end of the hall , draped in black velvet , and its handles tasselled in black and gold . |
| 17 | Born in Fife , Scotland in 1936 , Clark was the son of a wealthy sheep farmer and gave up his education at the age of 16 to work on the farm . |
| 18 | He never got to clean up his act at the Betty Ford Clinic then bore us all stupid with tales of his past self-abuse . |
| 19 | Jinkwa took up his position at the console . |
| 20 | In setting up his assignment at the University of Alabama , Donleavy had assumed that Coleman would return to Cyprus with Mary-Claude and Sarah in February 1988 , but analysing the personal histories of foreign scholars produced such interesting results that the DIA several times postponed his departure . |
| 21 | Sign he did , giving up his past at the Old Sun . |
| 22 | Mr. Benson , who is married with a two-year-old son , lives near Havant and will take up his post at the end of April . |
| 23 | A new director has taken up his post at the State Hermitage . |
| 24 | Bob will take up his post at the beginning of January 1992 and will be based at Canada 's head office in Toronto . |
| 25 | He screwed up his face at the appalling stench but made no move to draw back . |
| 26 | Lermontov left his seat to go and neck with Tsvetaeva , and Solzhenitsyn gave up his place at the front to go back and chat to Gogol and Pushkin . |
| 27 | Angus the chef was cleaning up his realm at the far end of the long hot kitchen and Simone was unpacking fat beef sandwiches which we all ate standing up while working . |
| 28 | The Old and New Courts described , SB 31 ; ‘ hold up his hand at the Old Bailey ’ , i.e. to plead guilty . |
| 29 | In ( 38 ) below one understands that the support of the finite verb carried out his helping at the same time as the support of the infinitive was addressing the letters , whence the meaning of being instrumental in the realization of this action . |
| 30 | Although Taylor was carrying out his research at the beginning of the century and despite the fact that his conclusions did not meet with the universal approval of either the workers or the management he left an important legacy which later theorists built upon : |