Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the doors slid open he glanced at the middle-aged couple who got out but then stared straight ahead again . |
| 2 | It might be said truthfully he died at the high point of his fame ! |
| 3 | Instinctively he clutched at the nylon-clad mound . |
| 4 | Then he looked at the dead woman . |
| 5 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 6 | He gave me a look which made me wonder if the leather riding gear was knife-proof , then he sprang at the internal phone and pressed two buttons . |
| 7 | Those light eyes rested on her as if he was making a mental sketch of her face ; then he glanced at the slim gold watch on his wrist . |
| 8 | Then he glanced at the fat woman carrying the naked-heeler . |
| 9 | AN alleged IRA gunman wore nothing but a pair of boxer shorts when he appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday charged with murder . |
| 10 | Allison claims to have started the idea in 1978 when he worked at the Clinical Research Centre in Harrow . |
| 11 | A third took him into the garden where he looked at the neat undisturbed flower-beds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |