Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad . |
| 2 | She turned her head , saw him tether his horse at the edge of the wood , watched him as he walked towards her . |
| 3 | In 1918 he was shot in the knee while on a bombing raid and spent some time in hospital before being awarded an army scholarship , which enabled him to complete his studies at the City and Guilds College , London . |
| 4 | Perhaps we may even persuade him to take my place at the chess-board . ’ |
| 5 | I stole a quick sidelong glance , and saw him turn his head at the same instant to look at me and give a faint smile . |
| 6 | He went off to a club where they wanted him to prove his age at the door ; it never crossed his mind that anyone else was under age . |
| 7 | He made his call at a meeting of high-level civil servants , police and military officers on Nov. 2 , three days before a House of Representatives debate on prostitution at which demands were made for the closure of all brothels nationwide . |
| 8 | He made his comments at a meeting on research and development at the Royal Society in London last week . |
| 9 | He tried his hand at the Can-Am series in North America . |
| 10 | He jerked his head at a hollow twenty yards behind him . |
| 11 | He jerked his head at the shy . |
| 12 | Mikhail Gorbachev got his hands on a Montego when he visited its home at the Cowley assembly plant in Oxford 7 years ago , just before taking office at Soviet leader . |
| 13 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 14 | He wrinkled his nose at the smells , thinking that the cowardly little wretches were trying to keep out of his way . |
| 15 | He told his audience at the French Academy of Political and Moral Sciences : ‘ One of the joys for me of being in France is that you have a particularly strong sense of the ultimate cost to the human spirit of unrelenting migration from the countryside to the big cities . ’ |
| 16 | He turned his head at a slight tap on the door . |
| 17 | He claimed his reservation at the Hotel Gul Bejaze , and stayed there for three weeks . |
| 18 | He told me that he fired his gun at the dogs and they ran away . |
| 19 | Sold by Marseille chairman Bernard Tapie after bust-up at a charity match when he threw his shirt at the referee . |
| 20 | He joined his superior at the door , pulling up the collar of his jacket as they stepped out into the street . |
| 21 | He shook his fist at the driver of the estate-car , who had climbed out and was staring blankly across the road . |
| 22 | ‘ He shook his stick at the old man , who stepped back in surprise . |
| 23 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |
| 24 | He jabbed his thumb at the ceiling to reinforce his point . |
| 25 | He jabbed his pen at a dark area on Bryce 's X-rays too . |
| 26 | His lawyer , Alistair Kelman , said : ‘ He spent his life at the end of a terminal . |
| 27 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 28 | He spent his war at the Bolsover Colliery in Derbyshire . |
| 29 | His weight increased as he spent his time at the club in conversation , and occasionally at Lord 's for matches and dinner gatherings . |
| 30 | Again , Jeremiah was doing the Lord 's work as a servant ; in the passage we heard a few moments ago , he expressed his dismay at the manner in which he was being treated by the people . |