Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] at [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He seated himself at his desk and , as usual , resorted to holding open a book — this time it was Who 's Who — turning a page to and fro . |
2 | ‘ I 'm incredibly romantic , ’ said Guy when he greets me at his door holding a bunch of carnations in one hand and a book of poetry by John Keats in the other . |
3 | John smiles apologetically at me as he arranges himself at her bedside . |
4 | We were sitting on rather low chairs , and he was very tall , so that when he placed himself at my corner his impedimenta were almost on a level with my nose . |
5 | Three days later he rang me at my sock . |
6 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
7 | He ignores them at his peril . |
8 | He felt it at his face and his fingers and his back and his arms , felt it at his buttocks and privates and thighs . |
9 | The family had expected to feel strange in Stephen 's company , but he put them at their ease and asked Jonadab 's advice on farming matters , until they warmed to him . |
10 | ‘ Burdened ’ as he put it at his trial , ‘ with the intolerable knowledge of my own beastliness ! ’ |
11 | Or : ‘ When Cupid shot his dart He shot it at your heart . ’ |
12 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
13 | He leaves us at our camp under the trees . |