Example sentences of "at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tug 's throat made a strange , clicking noise and the Woman 's shadowy hand clutched at his . |
| 2 | I tried to keep my eyes off his muscular thighs in their tight blue jeans , but as we bent over the café table it was easy to cast occasional surreptitious glances at his powerfully outlined sexual equipment under the much-rubbed fly , which seemed to be almost bursting at the seams . |
| 3 | He can neglect it , but he does so at his and the country 's peril . |
| 4 | guns at his |
| 5 | ‘ It looks like we 're going to be taken back to Woodstock here , ’ quipped Patrick Forge recently , as the motley Mother Earth crew took the stage at his and Gilles Peterson 's Talkin Loud night at the Fridge in Brixton . |
| 6 | As the Big Man marched into Dartmouth at his amazingly fast pace of 4.3 miles an hour , the hundreds lining the roadside would have no idea of the agony he was in — nor would Botham dream of telling them . |
| 7 | Duncan , not the greatest fan of junk food , had picked at his while the policeman enthusiastically devoured his . |
| 8 | Maybe he seeks a more thrustful mien so that when he goes to his nasty little hutch in the City and glares at his neurotically blinking little screen and barks into his cellular telephone for another tranche of lead futures or whatever , he comes over as just a trifle more macho than we all know him to be . |
| 9 | As late as 1960 all of the ‘ officers ’ , as the Lord Chancellor 's legal staff were known , not officials as elsewhere in the civil service , were able to sit around a not particularly large octagonal table in the Permanent Secretary 's room at his fortnightly office meetings . |
| 10 | He entered , looked at his heaped up in-tray and emptied the lot into the wastepaper basket with the comment " If there is anything important in that lot it will come round again . |
| 11 | By this route Schumpeter arrived at his much quoted definition of what he termed " the democratic method " : |
| 12 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 13 | He found that his ready command of French , Italian , German , Turkish , Arabic , Greek , and Albanian , and his personal friendship with many of the key figures in the area , made his presence invaluable to the commander-in-chief , although eyebrows were sometimes raised at his unremittingly pro-Turkish stance . |
| 14 | Ted puffed energetically at his , uncertain yet whether to congratulate himself on being parked up here with this very attractive young girl , or to commiserate with himself for his failure to make more than token progress . |
| 15 | She smiled once again , and very warmly , at the back of Tristan 's pale gold head and then at his truly Grecian profile as he turned to look up the aisle hoping — she supposed — to catch a glimpse of his bride . |
| 16 | Then , do these facts show that the promise was in consideration , either of the loss to be sustained by the plaintiff , or the benefit to be derived from the plaintiff to the uncle , at his , the uncle 's request ? |
| 17 | Ever as she said it , looking at him , at his finely tuned , muscular body and the sharp , clever , mocking planes of his face , she realised that he was sexually very attractive . |
| 18 | His lips tore at hers , and hers at his , as if each one was the prey and each the hunter — |
| 19 | Slowly her head turned to him and her eyes smiled at his . |
| 20 | He leaned against the rood screen and stared up at his newly repaired roof . |
| 21 | Unable to move , unable to speak , she stared at his perfectly shaped mouth , unconsciously licked her dry lips . |
| 22 | That at his will he may do danger with . |
| 23 | One day when great big pink flowers opened up in William and Jenny 's bowls Mum took Wee Joe to have another look at his one in the cupboard . |
| 24 | Like previous Lloyd Webber productions , the show was given a dry run at Lloyd Webber 's annual Sydmonton Festival , held at his 1,200-acre Berkshire estate . |
| 25 | He gave the impression that he had come straight from fasting ; and there was a mild hint of irritation at his fast being interrupted . |
| 26 | This was not the arbiter-president that Debré and the other drafters of the constitution had anticipated , but rather a ruling president who was not necessarily constrained by the letter of the constitution ( as he showed in his frequent recourse to referenda and in his willingness to replace prime ministers at his , rather than the assembly 's , pleasure ) . |
| 27 | But he 'd simply laughed at her protestations , the same way he always laughed when her mother protested at his seemingly endless generosity . |
| 28 | Her wits went begging at his totally unexpected appearance . |
| 29 | She lifted herself up on one elbow and looked down at his , at his face drawn with sorrow and the love that would sacrifice itself for her selfishness — and so needlessly . |
| 30 | Henry Skelton , who was twenty one , died from severe head injuries after falling from a second floor window at his |