Example sentences of "at his [noun] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she will glance ostentatiously at his watch , as if to indicate that an expected arrival is late for an appointment and if he happens to meet the glance of a passer-by , he will more often than not look once again at his watch and cast a long-suffering glance at heaven ; as if by recruiting sympathy for a familiar predicament he will pre-empt any suspicion of more suspect motives . |
| 2 | He pestered anyone who came along to look at his back and examine it for spots . |
| 3 | No poker player will sit with a man at his back or show his hand , but nor will a poker player have a cocky attitude to the game . |
| 4 | The new student will be expected to train daily at his home and attend a club training session at least twice a week . |
| 5 | Mr Anderson of Coatham Avenue has applied to Darlington Borough Council for planning permission to demolish a garage at his home and rebuild a detached double garage . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When Pierce abandons his band to pluck at his acoustic and wail a Son House/Charlie Patton song like ‘ Pony Blues ’ or Robert Wilkins ' ‘ Alabama Blues ’ , it is hard to tell his performance from the original . |
| 8 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
| 10 | She tried to get past him , running for the door , running for safety , running from the unspeakable truth — that she was ready to fall at his feet and admit her love . |
| 11 | Despite his terror of darkness and subterranean places , he wanted the ground to open at his feet and swallow him into its blackest hole . |
| 12 | Anyway this particular Monday morning I did n't feel like getting up although my Mam had already shouted : ‘ If he thinks he 's going to have me at his beck and call just to get him his breakfast when he wants , he 's got another think coming . ’ |
| 13 | The hawk which Aldebrand carries upon his wrist is trained to swoop at his aggressor and attack them with its beak and claws . |
| 14 | He would rise early to work at his desk and return to it after a day 's engagements , often until well past midnight . |
| 15 | ‘ At table he would just glower at his food and refuse to talk . |
| 16 | Tomorrow , she would have to forget the humiliation she had suffered at his hands and plead for his help in what threatened to be a hopeless task . |
| 17 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
| 18 | If he wants to fondle you , you snap at his hands and say , ‘ I 'm having no more of it ! ’ |
| 19 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |
| 20 | I glance at his eyes and read disgust . |
| 21 | I started to claw at his body and rip his pyjamas . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , you 'd better telephone Sam at his office and let him have my suggestions . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As the days passed Creggan got used to Slorne 's silence and grew to like it and he would perch at his stance and think about the land in the South where the two of them came from and try to imagine what it was like . |