Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory . |
| 2 | But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images . |
| 3 | It marks and establishes the arcane authority of the ( usually male ) development expert much more profoundly and severely than his outer lineaments of specialness such as the belted safari suit he wears ‘ in the field ’ and the flap and epaulet-laden trench coat he sports at the conferences he attends with sickening frequency in the West . |
| 4 | But from the way he glanced at the girls , Chen knew what he was thinking . |
| 5 | His desire is for the crown , and the way he starts at the witches ' double prophecy shows that he already has it in mind . |
| 6 | At the basis of his outrageous talent and inevitably the root of his temperamental insecurities , was his diminutive height and the almost vindictive treatment he received at the feet of much bigger and stronger opponents . |
| 7 | He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration . |
| 8 | Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . " |