Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They danced two dances together — or , rather , one and a half , for in the middle of the second , a waltz , he complained of feeling hot and giddy and she took him to sit out at the side .
2 But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached .
3 They left him looking up at the sky again .
4 Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively .
5 The spoilt , black-haired girl sitting beside him staring out at the river .
6 ‘ I 'll bet she 'd like him to end up at the foot of the cliff , ’ said a voice .
7 Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon .
8 Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London .
9 " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black .
10 if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem .
11 I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism .
12 He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak .
13 I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about .
14 He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects .
15 He looks up at the class .
16 He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer .
17 He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table .
18 He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat .
19 ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him .
20 Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom .
21 Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel .
22 And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try .
23 Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant !
24 He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about .
25 And he was extremely annoyed that evening when he came round at the interval .
26 ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly .
27 Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans .
28 He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way .
29 He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on .
30 I said well he reckons it does , he says when he filled up at the garage it were full , he says we had n't got back and it was between the half and three quarters , I said oh I never looked at it
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