Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That he was in Bursa by this time would seem to be borne out by his association with Molla Fenari 's son , Mehmed Sah , whose he became at the medrese of Mehmed I ( the Sultan medrese ) in Bursa . |
| 32 | and he asked at the pier for my father |
| 33 | And he started clearing to get this slate , and he got at the slate quite quick . |
| 34 | He gazed at the newspapers dully , he convinced himself he must be ill . |
| 35 | He gazed at the cream wall opposite , unblinking . |
| 36 | He gazed at the floor . |
| 37 | He gazed at the ceiling . |
| 38 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 39 | He gazed at the throat wounds with extraordinary concentration , but made no move to touch the body except to run his hand lightly over the back of the head , like a caress . |
| 40 | He gazed at the view from his living-room window : a quiet square , plane trees , early-morning shoppers . |
| 41 | Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed . |
| 42 | His voice was coloured with surprise as he gazed at the newcomer . |
| 43 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 44 | Later , from about 1690 , he operated at the sign of Hermes Head in Well Yard , west Smithfield . |
| 45 | He qualified at the College in 1824 , being rather older than most of the students , and was appointed demonstrator in anatomy by Coleman . |
| 46 | No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there . |
| 47 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 48 | ‘ As sure as hell not to see through , that 's a fact ! ’ he ripped into her flatly , and , before she could draw breath , he prodded at the folder that lay on his desk and rapped , ‘ You read perfectly well from this file — without your glasses — the night I delivered it to your apartment ! ’ |
| 49 | For a moment the flesh hung slackly on his face as he gaped at the damage , and then he sucked up his lips and took a deep breath . |
| 50 | He gaped at the screen . |
| 51 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 52 | Hirst 's recovery from the ankle bone he cracked at the end of August is most encouraging , following the failure of Arsenal 's Ian Wright to click alongside Alan Shearer . |
| 53 | ‘ We 'll either be here next year — or we 'll have gone under , ’ he quipped at the awards ceremony in London on September 23 . |
| 54 | Thankfully , as he demonstrated at the weekend — during which he claimed 91 points from nine tries and 23 conversions — they happen . |
| 55 | His work , which he pursued at the Town Hall , was never mentioned in the house , and as far as Clara could gather it was mathematical , highly respectable , and highly dull . |
| 56 | He was certainly in Wales in mid June 1470 when , as justiciar , he presided at the Carmarthenshire great sessions . |
| 57 | He was certainly in Wales in mid June 1470 when , as justiciar , he presided at the Carmarthenshire great sessions . |
| 58 | He presided at the councils of Piacenza and Clermont ( 1095 ) , and preached with fervour war against the infidel , for the defence of Christendom and the recovery of the holy places . |
| 59 | Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I 'm alone , ’ he thundered at the television screen . |