Example sentences of "and he [verb] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hector had been huddled by the door , and he had snuffed at once at her feet , whimpering . |
| 2 | There had been two Argentine naval officers , one on the tug and the other on the Santa Maria , and he had seen at least six crew , but he did not know the names of any of them . |
| 3 | They had drunk pots of strong black coffee and he had to leave at 8 . |
| 4 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 5 | He went through his whole performance second by second , from the moment Westerman had introduced him and he had waved at the camera , to the moment Westerman had summed up , and he had told him it was absolutely fascinating . |
| 6 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 7 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 8 | She had talked to him twice already about wanting to be sent away to school and he had looked at her sadly , saying , ‘ But you 're too young , Katherine . |
| 9 | ’ And he had looked at Fergus rather sadly when he said this . |
| 10 | She had solved his problem with Ana , belonged to him , and he had looked at her deeply with a great deal of affection . |
| 11 | And for one moment , when his eyes had opened and he had looked at her , she had been so sure that he had loved her back . |
| 12 | The work was dull , and he had to look at it closely . |
| 13 | And he avoided borrowing at penal rates of interest . |
| 14 | Then the phone rang and he began screaming at her , ‘ Get out of here , get out of here ! |
| 15 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 16 | The tone was insolent , and he began to shout at her . |
| 17 | For Green , the proposal of the Cambridge Board had major implications at national level and he sought to arrive at a local compromise to prevent a more widespread set of problems for the WEA . |
| 18 | And we had a neighbour named and he 'd worked at E T N S all his life and had some influence and I mentioned it to him and he asked me , asked me if he could find me a job . |
| 19 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |
| 20 | And he 'd looked at her as though he 'd never seen her before in his life . |
| 21 | ‘ Great , ’ said Simon , and he 'd smiled at them both . |
| 22 | Parker 's face was a mask of blood and he kept brushing at his eye . |
| 23 | His English was reserved for me and he kept shouting at me and pleading with me to check that ‘ all equipment ’ and ‘ my suitcase — the brown one , you know ’ were all safely stowed . |
| 24 | It was true that there were usually two of them together and he remembered thinking at the time that the other one was probably in a shop begging . |
| 25 | She nodded , and he sat looking at her until she looked back at him . |
| 26 | He lowered himself gingerly to a gilt chair and stirred his coffee , the spoon circulating slowly until it finally stopped and he sat staring at it . |
| 27 | And he 's looked at it and just said well look at it . |
| 28 | And that was er under John John was the manager and er I tell you Scott come and he started swearing at me and I says , I did n't m ask you for your bloody job , so next er next morning when they goes , he they had they had me walking the rope . |
| 29 | Aghast , incredulous , she craned to see more clearly if this was indeed her own mad forebear toying there inside her thought ; and he turned to leer at her . |
| 30 | Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants . |