Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 2 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 3 | With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword . |
| 4 | Within 6 months he excels at the art . |
| 5 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 6 | His letter written to congratulate his elder brother Lodovico when his engagement was announced , is typical of the sermons he preached at the marriages of so many friends . |
| 7 | For two years he taught at a preparatory school in Reigate , before being appointed head of the English department at Stowe by the school 's headmaster , J. F. Roxburgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 9 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 10 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |
| 11 | Normally this duty was spelt out explicitly in the instructions he received at the beginning of his embassy . |
| 12 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 13 | At other times he looks at the sky , his jaw clenching and unclenching as if working a particularly stubborn wad of chewing gum while the Kansas City Glee Club harmonises solemn music : perhaps he wants to turn it off — but they are unstoppable . |
| 14 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 15 | For a few moments he sat at the receiver , listening to the hollow hum of vacant ether , recovering . |
| 16 | He wo n't get far with those infinitive verbs he uses at the moment . |
| 17 | Possibly in one of the cheap wine-shops he frequented at the back of Ryn station . |
| 18 | During the year the largest project had been the re-decoration of the Phair Hall , costing £3,766 , but Mrs. Roadnight expressed appreciation of Alistair Harley for all the general maintenance jobs he undertakes at the centre . |