Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 2 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 3 | Spatz said , turning to look at his Senior Technician . |
| 4 | He looked north to where the City ended abruptly on the shores of the icy Baltic , then turned to smile at his personal secretary , Chang Shih-sen . |
| 5 | Having invented and evolved culture , man , it seems , never ceases to marvel at his own creation . |
| 6 | Everett , who had been ordered to take a rest at 98 trips , was testing aircraft at the Group Maintenance Unit when he heard that there was a spare aircraft going a-begging at his old squadron . |
| 7 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 8 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 9 | In 1887 he was allowed to resign at his own request . |
| 10 | A faint look of admiration came into his eyes and then his long , cloaking lashes had swept down and she was left staring at his mask-like face again . |
| 11 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
| 12 | Leith got started on her work , doubting very much that they would so much as catch a glimpse of their new ‘ colleagues ’ , but she had to smile at his quaint terminology for the higher ranks . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Queen Charlotte had asked to be the dedicatee of some of Mozart 's works which Leopold duly had engraved at his own expense ( K.10–15 , sonatas for keyboard and violin or flute and 'cello , published as op.III ) . |
| 14 | It was built in the beautiful plum-coloured brick he had used at his main residence of Rycote . |
| 15 | But then Arthurs , who had called at his former home to visit his three children , lashed out at Mr Berry with a cricket bat and kicked him in the face , breaking his jaw in several places . |
| 16 | ‘ Shit , ’ he murmured under his breath , goosepimples plucking at his naked skin . |
| 17 | Judge Lee refused to comment at his luxury home in Malvern , Worcs . |
| 18 | ‘ Inspector Cotton is getting uppity , because we have looked at his precious Livesey file . ’ |
| 19 | Andy Till , who defends his British light-middleweight title against Tony Collins at York Hall , Bethnal Green tonight , also failed to show at his same-venue news conference . |