Example sentences of "he [vb past] [conj] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 2 | He stopped and stared at her rather alarmingly , his eyes running over her from head to foot . |
| 3 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 4 | DIANE GAMOCHE ( STUDENT ) : I was hiding beneath two desks , and he stopped and shot at me twice but nothing happened . |
| 5 | ‘ He stopped and looked at Sister Cooney . |
| 6 | He stopped and looked at us . |
| 7 | He stopped and looked at her enquiringly . |
| 8 | Maybe Carter 's — ’ He stopped and looked at Marcus . |
| 9 | He stopped and looked at them self-consciously . |
| 10 | Then he stopped and bowed at the waist . |
| 11 | Unused to being argued with , he shouted and cursed at her , and soon the two of them were arguing fiercely , he having trouble making articulate sentences due to his excessive amount of drink , which only made him yet angrier . |
| 12 | Angel proceeded to put on an incredible display of histrionics , peacock-blue eyes flashing , nostrils flaring above his furiously pouting mouth , as he shouted and swore at Alejandro . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And he poked and prodded at her vagina and her belly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He came and stood at her side , pointing at two circular hatches in the floor flanked by handrails , with massive spheres secured nearby . |
| 17 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 18 | He turned and lunged at her , stabbing her three times , the last thrust piercing her heart . |
| 19 | He turned and looked at the display of cakes on the long table . |
| 20 | He turned and looked at his guard who was waiting tamely behind him and keeping an occasional look-out along the wire . |
| 21 | He turned and looked at her . |
| 22 | He turned and looked at Dinah lying on the bed , her shoes kicked off beside it , her hair out of its pins for comfort , her gown unlaced . |
| 23 | He turned and looked at her sleeping beside him . |
| 24 | He turned and looked at her face . |
| 25 | He had been about to open the door into the kitchen , but now he turned and looked at her , and his next words cut her to the bone as they were apt to do when they spat the truth at her . |
| 26 | He turned and looked at me . |
| 27 | He turned and looked at them . |
| 28 | He turned and looked at her . |
| 29 | He turned and looked at her . |
| 30 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |