Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 2 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 3 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 4 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 5 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 6 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 7 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 8 | But he had swung round at the sound of a vehicle approaching . |
| 9 | David Arthur , 18 , of Blackstoun Avenue , Linwood , Renfrewshire , claimed during a trial that he had lashed out at the victim , Greig Mooney , 18 , with a broken umbrella he had found discarded in the street . |
| 10 | By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided . |
| 11 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 12 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 13 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 14 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 15 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 16 | With a veiled smile he had glanced down at the locket . |
| 17 | He remained staring down at the the photograph , then slowly shook his head . |