Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’ |
| 2 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 3 | He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead . |
| 4 | He winked at the other man who was watching Oliver sullenly . |
| 5 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 6 | Slowly raising his head , Ross stared down at his wife , his grey eyes stormy with passion as he gazed at the blonde hair forming a golden halo about her head , and the creamy skin of her naked body , gleaming in the light of the soft lamps . |
| 7 | He gazed at the deep reds , purples and blues that dominated the central figure in the painting , feeling certain he 'd seen the image somewhere before . |
| 8 | He looked down , and as he gazed at the sleeping child his eyes glittered with what looked suspiciously like unshed tears . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's wonderful , ’ he gasped , as he gazed at the little face and held each tiny hand , studying the miniature nails in wonderment . |
| 10 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 11 | He gazed at the assembled company . |
| 12 | He gazed at the slim , stilted legs of typists and shop assistants , hurrying to their low-calorie lunches . |
| 13 | The animal , alarmed by such rapid movement , now sprang to his full height , his great unsheathed paws beating the air as he strained at the massive steel collar around his neck . |
| 14 | He peered at the long list . |
| 15 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 16 | He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card . |
| 17 | He trained at the Central School of Art and Design , but never graduated , joining instead a group of frustrated designers , which included such budding innovationists as Mary Quant and Laura Ashley , who , like Conran himself , were eventually to become household names . |
| 18 | ‘ Flash bastard ! ’ he shouted at the retreating back . |
| 19 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 20 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 21 | It was a clean , well-swept establishment with secure stables , a fresh herb-smelling tap room , a large roaring fire with the logs piled high — though he baulked at the huge four-poster bed he 'd have to share with Sir John . |
| 22 | The Gesta clearly states ( though very briefly ) that he studied at the great law university of Bologna . |
| 23 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 24 | Impressed by the Method masters ' formidable screen and stage presence , Allen left fringe theatre for New York , where he studied at the famous Strasberg Institute ( former pupils include Marilyn Monroe and Method 's godfather Brando ) and worked by night as a doorman at the fashionable club , Nell 's , ’ to pay the rent ’ . |
| 25 | He grew up in Holland until at the age of I3 he was sent to live with his uncle , Henri Curiel , in Egypt , where he studied at the English school . |
| 26 | He studied at the Royal College of Art before teaching at St Martin 's School of Art and is course tutor at Colchester Institute . |
| 27 | He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London , under A. W. von Hofmann , and in 1860 joined as a partner the well established chemical manufacturing business founded by his grandfather , Luke Howard [ q.v. ] , in 1807 . |
| 28 | He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 . |
| 29 | He gestured at the dog-eaten hoofs and roots of buffalo horn which stretched before us . |
| 30 | He claimed at the Tory Conference , in a phrase that he must by now be sick of hearing thrown back at him , that he would intervene before breakfast , lunch and dinner . |