Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 11 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 12 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He looks up at the class . |
| 15 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 16 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 17 | He glances round at the seventeen people — who are they ? : students ? , support-workers ? , staff ? — squeezed around the two tables . |
| 18 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 19 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 20 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 21 | ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him . |
| 22 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 23 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |
| 24 | Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel . |
| 25 | And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try . |
| 26 | He spins round at the third barrel . |
| 27 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 28 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 29 | And he was extremely annoyed that evening when he came round at the interval . |
| 30 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |