Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 2 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 3 | He remained an active supporter of CND , boasted that his daughter had been conceived on an Aldermaston march , and had once horrified Margaret Thatcher by wearing his CND badge when he met her at a gathering of northern business people . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |
| 5 | Sometimes he walking round with his marking book and he holds it at an angle you know so you can see all the answers . |
| 6 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 7 | Few months down the line , and he sells him at a loss . |
| 8 | He drained it at a draught and threw it back , the dark mood that had kept him silent from Ivrigar falling away . |