Example sentences of "he [verb] and [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sits on a very smoky-looking cloud and he laughs and laughs at the sight of copulation . |
| 2 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 3 | Then he stopped and bowed at the waist . |
| 4 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 5 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 6 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 7 | He turned and looked at the display of cakes on the long table . |
| 8 | He turned and looked at the slender woman cowering in her chair . |
| 9 | He turned and stared at the pool . |
| 10 | He turned and stared at the Manse . |
| 11 | When I made no response he turned and gazed at the far line of coral reef that was marked by a fret of white breaking water . |
| 12 | He sighed and gazed at the cello . |
| 13 | He nodded and chewed at the side of his thumb . |
| 14 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 15 | He lay and stared at the wall . |
| 16 | He whirled and pointed at the man in the front row . |
| 17 | He stamped and cursed at the tatterdemalion cat curling a skeletal paw across the doorstep . |
| 18 | He inhaled and stared at the ceiling ; smoking in bed was something his wife did n't like , it was only on business trips that he managed it , depending on the company . |
| 19 | He lurched and grabbed at the mantelpiece to steady himself . |
| 20 | He sat and stared at the desk in front of him , the creamy whorls in the wood , the tanned grain . |
| 21 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 22 | He stood and looked at the piano . |