Example sentences of "[noun pl] as he [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brain seemed to be malfunctioning — his emotions felt like torn rags as he stared at the theatre programme that sat on top of his desk . |
| 2 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |
| 3 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 4 | Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ the man replied between gasps as he heaved at the oars , ‘ there is something I can tell you . ’ |