Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 They found the brassiere under the bed and Jo let him hook it up at the back for her .
2 I let him pick me up at the Marski .
3 He pinned her down at the CI5 computer centre , and over the phone briefly explained what he and Doyle needed of her .
4 Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place .
5 After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ?
6 He told her so at the very end .
7 Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator .
8 He threw it hard at the Dodger , but missed and hit Charley Bates , who started to shout with fear .
9 He handed it over at a rendezvous — but Elizabeth was kept in her captor 's car boot for another two hours before being dumped .
10 He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot .
11 He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station .
12 He takes me in at a glance and starts peering around the room , checking out the sofa , examining the ceiling .
13 He was a small man and it looked as if his rifle was much too heavy for him as he waved it threateningly at the crowd inside the camp .
14 It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone .
15 He then only needed a pitching-wedge and he hit it straight at the pin to about 18 feet or so .
16 Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around .
17 He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail .
18 He pops them in at the white
19 He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face .
20 Well I promise I wo n't keep them more than that , but this coming from a party that 's brought about that , and then being critical of others and the lack of intent , I think the he said it right at the beginning we have a very good education system , and I 'm saying we 've got one despite this Government .
21 He sat her down at the table , where she could feel the warmth of the fire after her bath .
22 That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine .
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