Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Imagine him volunteering to look at the chicken pie .
2 He plans to accompany Mr Major to his count in Huntingdon and will forgo the election night dinner he planned to host at the Mirabelle .
3 He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger .
4 He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains .
5 Edouard was on horseback ; he stopped to look at the child , who was about eight or nine years old , and exceptionally beautiful .
6 He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff .
7 He bent to look at the fastening , then picked up one of the white stones and struck ; the glass tinkled thinly , a horrible sound .
8 When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement .
9 Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government .
10 His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics .
11 He turned to look at the clock .
12 Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants .
13 And at that moment , as he turned to look at the girl again with a glint of admiration in his eyes , Ronni was aware of a reaction deep inside her .
14 He turned to look at the trees , but they were bare .
15 From time to time he turned to shout at the girl behind him .
16 It is understood he intends to retire at the end of his contract in June 1994 and had negotiated a deal with Poynton to boost his retirement proceeds .
17 THE chairman of Darlington Health Authority has announced he intends to retire at the end of March .
18 Then he began to hack at the door-frame .
19 Another agent was recruited to the effort in Charlie 's Restaurant in Washington , where he arranged to sit at the bar with two packets of cigarettes in front of him , so that Secord and North could recognize who he was .
20 He was linked with Cardiff in the summer when he decided to stay at the Brewery Field .
21 He offered to look at the engine of her car , an offer which was gratefully accepted .
22 He went to look at the window sill and there was this think it 's about time You did something about these .
23 You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city .
24 He went to look at the ricks again .
25 He was respectful but unalarmed when the King appeared and after a moment 's silence he chose to laugh at the likeness and the revelation that they were distant cousins ; indeed , so little was Rassendyll impressed that he noted that the King 's mouth lacked ‘ something of the firmness ( or obstinacy ) which was to be gathered from my close-shutting lips ’ .
26 He expects to stay at the hotel for some years to come to oversee operations .
27 I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) .
28 But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle .
29 In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One !
30 I 've got an appointment with — ’ he paused to look at the name at the foot of the letter which had been included in his holdall at the station ‘ -K .
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