Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he turns up back at the flat , he has a bunch of red gladioli . |
| 2 | Max appeared disappointed by the reply as he peered down again at the grisly work on which he was engaged . |
| 3 | He glanced back up at the house , where warm orange light spilled out from the dining room into the grey afternoon . |
| 4 | He laughed out loud at the notion , and the laugh showed him that he was jumpy . |
| 5 | He laughed out loud at the end of her story . |
| 6 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 7 | He looked up suspiciously at the northern sky , clear and tranquil . |
| 8 | He looked up sharply at the sound of the door — Again ? he thought disbelievingly , and he winced as the movement aggravated the mild headache that he 'd brought home with him . |
| 9 | Then he looked back again at the blinding quayside . |
| 10 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 11 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 12 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 13 | He looked in briefly at the unconscious girl . |
| 14 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |