Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 3 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 4 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 5 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 6 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 7 | He weighed in at sixteen stone , eleven pounds , which makes him the heaviest man ever to row in the boat race . |
| 8 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 9 | He touched down at Upper Heyford right on schedule at 1.55 a.m. local time , disturbing the sleep of the villagers beneath him as he made his final turn into the approach lights . |
| 10 | How many p people d di did he take on at that time then , when he first took over ? |
| 11 | He was also keen to return North and Lawrence wasted no time when he took over at Ayresome Park . |
| 12 | From the moment that Brian McClair , the first player Mr Ferguson signed when he took over at Old Trafford , put United ahead after 14 minutes there appeared only one winner . |
| 13 | What I would say is that Liam was inexperienced in management when he took over at Celtic Park . |
| 14 | He appeared to be asleep but when he saw officers he took off at high speed . |
| 15 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
| 16 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 17 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 18 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
| 19 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 20 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 21 | HE 'S the tallest player in League football at 6ft 7in , he weighs in at 16 ½st and wears size 13 boots . |
| 22 | He weighs in at 13-and-a-half stone and is 6ft 4in tall . |
| 23 | Flashman , who made his fortune touting tickets , insisted yesterday that he was acting only in self defence when he struck out at three photographers , including TODAY 'S Chris Turvey . |
| 24 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |