Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 2 | Instinctively she knew how to pleasure him in return , exalted when he moaned at the delicacy of her touch and begged for her to increase the pressure of her caresses , until they reached the point of no return together , their bodies joining in a union so satisfying , so complete that in that moment of culmination Gina no longer felt a separate entity . |
| 3 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 4 | Sharpe had no watch , but he estimated that he stayed at the edge of the wood for two hours during which time he counted twenty-two guns and forty-eight supply wagons . |
| 5 | And when he gets it on , the , the C and D truck it sets off , what happens when he stops at the first set of traffic lights ? or turns out ? |
| 6 | Jinny did not understand , but the boy 's head turned and he stared at the Hare-woman . |
| 7 | None of the four phones would ring if he remained at the desk all day . |
| 8 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |
| 9 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 10 | He frowned as he stared at the brown water still gushing from the tap . |
| 11 | Once the President had retired to his quarters for the short flight , the DDI opened the envelope he 'd been handed when he arrived at the airport . |
| 12 | The king is shown as he appeared at the battle of San Martino , the basal frieze showing the entry into Milan of Piedmontian and French troops following the battle of Magenta . |
| 13 | He was trying to joke but he was unable to smile as he looked at the old cow . |
| 14 | After we went through the second door , Buff stood without moving and he looked at the trees and did n't say anything . |
| 15 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |
| 16 | Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed . |
| 17 | Suppose that he starts at the pole in Fig. 3.8 with the local vector a shown there . |
| 18 | He finds that he looks at the beggar intensely , as if he would like to know his life story , and smiles quite naturally . |
| 19 | Scathach 's horse panicked and he shouted at the creature , which stamped in the water , twisting and tugging with discomfort . |
| 20 | Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site . |
| 21 | Otley called as he charged at the Romans . |
| 22 | Yet no sooner was the decision taken than he quailed at the prospect , for he knew that a full expression of the rage lying at the root of Emilia 's melancholic condition must quickly overwhelm him . |
| 23 | Actor , Anthony Hopkins , explains that he jumped at the chance to play a part in the film . |
| 24 | WHEN bought Burston windmill he could never have envisaged all the changes which would take place — but he always chuckled when he looked at the map — geographically he had bought the high ground . |
| 25 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 26 | Joe , a 61-year-old housing supervisor , of Portland House , Longlands , said when he arrived at the loft yesterday morning the outer door had been nailed up from the outside . |
| 27 | He was walking out of the tower when he glanced up , stopped , froze as he stared at the horror above his head . |
| 28 | Gary fancied the uniform of the Coldstream Guards when he arrived at the recruiting office . |
| 29 | But Buttons still had hold and if anything quickened as he galloped at the hedge . |