Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 2 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 3 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 4 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 5 | Charles was handing round the silver tray of champagne , his smile one of pure pleasure and pride as he gazed round at the assembled family in the conservatory . |
| 6 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
| 7 | He glances round at the seventeen people — who are they ? : students ? , support-workers ? , staff ? — squeezed around the two tables . |
| 8 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 9 | He spins round at the third barrel . |
| 10 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 11 | He dropped in at the still extant Paperback Shop . |
| 12 | He booked in at the special executive reception on the eighteenth floor , reserving an executive suite on the twentieth floor . |
| 13 | When he turned off at a small junction taking a no-through road , she stopped and watched him out of sight . |
| 14 | He arrived back at the appointed spot some ten minutes early , and spent an irritable half-hour tramping up and down before Lefevre 's return . |
| 15 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 16 | Graham Fowler made it a double when he teamed up at the last minute with Chris Schaefer from Tennis World and in see-saw men 's double final the Tennis World pair of Ben O'Connor and Peter Ford . |
| 17 | We were delighted with his debut over fences when he beat Forest Sun in a hot novice contest at Worcester and he followed up at the same course on Wednesday . |
| 18 | ‘ As you should know from your own experiences ’ — he glanced up at the framed portrait of Commonweal School staff and pupils , September 1948 — ‘ the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy . |
| 19 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |
| 20 | As the old man reluctantly accepted a sip of water , he glanced over at the other bed . |
| 21 | He glanced over at the huge woman . |
| 22 | He glanced down at the mechanical bird caged at his feet . |
| 23 | But even then , when she was standing upright beside him , he made no attempt to release her hand and Rachel was only too aware of his appraising glance as he glanced down at the wet jade swimsuit tightly moulded to her slight , almost boyish figure before abruptly she snatched her hand away and walked quickly to the changing-rooms . |
| 24 | He glanced back at the dead girl and smiled , as if to chide her gently for her folly . |
| 25 | The jolt rattled his ribs and he breathed in at the same moment as his head crashed through the surface , like a seal in the surf . |
| 26 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 27 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 28 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 29 | He looked round at the other rabbits , who were all staring either at Bigwig or at himself . |
| 30 | He looked round at the other diners . |