Example sentences of "on his [noun] at the " in BNC.

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1 So when he rehearsed the scene he based it on his experience at the chemist 's , an example of his always having to make contact with a real , lived emotion .
2 Mr Buckley , 30 , underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain at the Royal Hallamshire hospital , Sheffield , after fracturing his skull in an accidental clash of heads with Plymouth defender Gary Poole in the fifth minute of the game at Rotherham , which ended 2–2 .
3 Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court .
4 It may be that Henry had to dispense largess to make it acceptable to his lords ; but the Feoda is evidence that he had somehow overcome potential opposition , and could now capitalize on his position at the apex of the feudal pyramid in the county .
5 D. N. Pritt , at the time a member of the Labour Party National Executive , gave a pro-Soviet report based on his observations at the 1936 trial .
6 The death of the admiral on his flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in October of that year did nothing to stem her spending — of money that was no longer there .
7 On his return at the beginning of July , he will be able to get in touch with you regarding the final video edit .
8 And as Arnie S is on his hols at the mo , Turrican is the man to help .
9 On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery .
10 Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse .
11 There was no way I was going across to follow Ewen Mackay to spy on his activities at the house .
12 It was on a half-pasted-up Foyer Display on his desk at the theatre — Your Front-of-House Man , Christopher Tomms — Dad must have raged at everyone to find it , but he never thought to ask me .
13 Towards the end of his life , when giving a talk on his career at the Royal College of Art , Minton was asked what had been the most difficult factor to contend with .
14 In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work .
15 Ace is my top driver , and you ought to know perfectly well there 's a great deal riding on his shoulders at the moment .
16 ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time .
17 He did have ( and I know this as I was on his staff at the time ) some sympathy with Coastal Command in view of its flight in the Atlantic , particularly in the Western Approaches and more especially in what was called the " black pit " , this was an area in the Atlantic where the RAF could not give air cover to the convoys either from Ireland .
18 He was a bit sort of wobbly on his legs at the beginning of the day but he 's been
19 In fact he had about eighteen birds on his books at the time , ranging in age from two weeks upwards , and he was hand-rearing them .
20 On his showing at the Brooklands circuit with a prewar 4½-litre Opel and by persistent importuning , he was accepted , in 1921 , as a team driver by Louis Hervé Coatalen [ q.v. ] , designer and racing manager to Sunbeam ( soon to be the Anglo-French concern , Sunbeam–Talbot–Darracq ) , the only English competitor in international events .
21 How well he is able to cope with the situation will depend partly on his age at the time and partly on how carefully the adults around him handle the situation .
22 Magician , , conjured up £46 on his stall at the Summer Fayre. is pictured handing over the cheque to , chairperson of the Carnoustie Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , with , operations manager , at .
23 Illingworth played birthday Tests in three successive years , 1971 , 1972 and 1973 , and May laid the foundations of a captain 's hundred in a losing cause on his birthday at the end of 1958 .
24 turnkey who greets Pickwick on his arrival at the Fleet , and finds him accommodation .
25 As with the censored Christian argument in Notes from Underground , I believe an unfathomable good luck wearing the face of bad luck was on his side at the start .
26 I was actually living on his farm at the time .
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