Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] at his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned up at his apartment at the appointed hour . |
| 2 | I looked over at his mother . |
| 3 | At the Hospedaje Lisboa where Dana stayed — ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — I looked up at his window as I had so often done on those lonely days and nights he spent away from me . |
| 4 | I looked up at his face and braced myself for the inevitable blast . |
| 5 | I looked down at his body , and was pleased with what I had done . |
| 6 | She turned up at his flat not having bothered to go home and change , more than a little tired and jaded after an extremely hard working day . |
| 7 | Then she glanced up at his face . |
| 8 | She bobbed up at his side like a terrier , treading water . |
| 9 | Raising herself on one arm , she stared down at his face , absorbing every detail of it , admiring the hard bones , the strong yet soft lines of his mouth , the twin fans of eyelashes resting against his cheekbones as , eyes closed , he waited , as all men must , for his strength to return after such an explosion of passionate need . |
| 10 | She was examining a few canvases stacked against the wall but she looked up at his question . |
| 11 | She looked up at his face , unattractively blotched by the morning chill , at the grubby stubble , at the two brittle hairs at the corners of his mouth , at the trace of blackened blood in the left nostril , as if he had had a nose bleed , at the eyes , still gummy with sleep . |
| 12 | Standing there beside him at the water 's edge , she looked down at his reflection , next to her own in the still , clear water . |
| 13 | She looked down at his hand , which was tense and unmoving . |
| 14 | She looked down at his hand on her arm , a square , brown hand with strong , short fingers , slightly stained with paint . |
| 15 | She smiled up at his frown . |
| 16 | At the same time as trying to knot the heavyish material he peered down at his stomach . |
| 17 | He had no idea the 2.30pm appointment he fixed up at his home in Rochester Way , Darlington , would last five hours . |
| 18 | pilot Albert Thompson was still too shocked to speak when he arrived back at his home in Great Coxwell near Farringdon . |
| 19 | ’ He glanced up at his friend . |
| 20 | But when he glanced down at his chest , he saw to his intense relief the smashed casing and circuitry of his radio showing through torn material . |
| 21 | And then he glanced down at his watch . |
| 22 | He glanced down at his wrist . |
| 23 | Joseph watched them go , then he glanced back at his mother with a troubled expression in his eyes . |
| 24 | Fleming made his famous observation late in the summer of 1928 , when he called in at his laboratory during his summer holiday . |
| 25 | He looked up at his son wearily . |
| 26 | He looked out at his patch of garden and shook himself all over . |
| 27 | He looked back at his interrogator . |
| 28 | He looked down at his clipboard . |
| 29 | He looked down at his desk , sniffing deeply . |
| 30 | And he looked down at his leg . |