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

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1 They danced two dances together — or , rather , one and a half , for in the middle of the second , a waltz , he complained of feeling hot and giddy and she took him to sit out at the side .
2 But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached .
3 They left him looking up at the sky again .
4 Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally .
5 Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively .
6 The spoilt , black-haired girl sitting beside him staring out at the river .
7 ‘ I 'll bet she 'd like him to end up at the foot of the cliff , ’ said a voice .
8 Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon .
9 Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse .
10 In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards .
11 Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London .
12 " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black .
13 if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem .
14 Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace .
15 We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word .
16 I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism .
17 He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas .
18 Charles was handing round the silver tray of champagne , his smile one of pure pleasure and pride as he gazed round at the assembled family in the conservatory .
19 I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about .
20 He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak .
21 He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects .
22 He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest .
23 He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed .
24 He looks up at the class .
25 He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table .
26 He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer .
27 He glances round at the seventeen people — who are they ? : students ? , support-workers ? , staff ? — squeezed around the two tables .
28 He glances back at the stones of the air shaft .
29 He glances down at the final layer of glasses .
30 He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat .
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