Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 32 | Then , snatching a lance from one of them , he placed himself at the apex and , couching the lance , shouted to charge . |
| 33 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 34 | A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening . |
| 35 | HE RANG ME AT the office one afternoon . |
| 36 | She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day . |
| 37 | It was because he fucked her at the beginning of her blood , she said . |
| 38 | He tells us at the beginning of his book that he is an Aristotelean in these matters , but the price he pays is that his definition simply fails to bear upon the intuitive criteria for an explication of consciousness , such as those set out above . |
| 39 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
| 40 | She blew smoke serenely as he flicked it at the wall . |
| 41 | He remembered him at the funeral of his mother . |
| 42 | ‘ He bought me at the scramble . ’ |
| 43 | At 9.55 he presented himself at the door of the tall and impassive apartment-house a block back from Great Portland Street in the Marble Arch district . |
| 44 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 45 | ‘ I saw the rose he gave you at the back of the drawer , wrapped in silver foil ! ’ |
| 46 | That is , he does nothing , he does nothing at the moment but prepares for action , or he takes action . |
| 47 | ‘ When I was ten , my Dad bought me a guitar for Christmas , which I 'd asked for , but at the same time he enrolled me at the local golf club ! |
| 48 | His manner as he greeted her at the church door , then ushered her to her seat , did nothing to dispel her apprehension . |
| 49 | He was glad to let the subject drop and they drove in silence until he left her at the gate of Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 50 | He left her at the gates of the modern-looking block , then drove to St Michael 's , where Nicky Stone was a pupil . |
| 51 | He left her at the large ornate gate , and she walked up the short drive to the front door . |
| 52 | She was overwhelmed by a mixture of terror and relief as he left her at the wheel and went forward to free the line . |
| 53 | But he either could n't or would n't understand , and he left it at the back . |
| 54 | The Palace was Whibley 's only League club and , when he left us at the end of 1922–23 , he returned to his home town to play for Sittingbourne . |
| 55 | He launched himself at the taller of the two men , dragging him back . |
| 56 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 57 | You know he likes you at the table punctually . ’ |
| 58 | He hurled himself at the boy . |
| 59 | He was still writing verses but , according to Hooton 's notes , he abandoned them at the end of this year under the influence of Pater . |
| 60 | As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance . |