Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sits down at his desk and opens his diary . |
| 2 | At the same time as trying to knot the heavyish material he peered down at his stomach . |
| 3 | He had no idea the 2.30pm appointment he fixed up at his home in Rochester Way , Darlington , would last five hours . |
| 4 | pilot Albert Thompson was still too shocked to speak when he arrived back at his home in Great Coxwell near Farringdon . |
| 5 | ’ He glanced up at his friend . |
| 6 | But when he glanced down at his chest , he saw to his intense relief the smashed casing and circuitry of his radio showing through torn material . |
| 7 | And then he glanced down at his watch . |
| 8 | He glanced down at his wrist . |
| 9 | Joseph watched them go , then he glanced back at his mother with a troubled expression in his eyes . |
| 10 | Fleming made his famous observation late in the summer of 1928 , when he called in at his laboratory during his summer holiday . |
| 11 | He looked up at his son wearily . |
| 12 | He looked out at his patch of garden and shook himself all over . |
| 13 | He looked back at his interrogator . |
| 14 | He looked down at his clipboard . |
| 15 | He looked down at his desk , sniffing deeply . |
| 16 | And he looked down at his leg . |
| 17 | He looked down at his plate . |
| 18 | He looked down at his stepfather again . |
| 19 | He looked down at his mother , who appeared quite unflustered by his rage . |
| 20 | He glanced at Ray Doyle , and realised that Doyle was conscious and shivering , his teeth chattering violently as he stared up at his colleague . |
| 21 | He stared down at his stepfather almost angrily . |
| 22 | He stared down at his body , and large tears splashed on to the brilliant tattoos of light . |
| 23 | Nuadu could see that his eyes were distended with fright now , but he stared back at his captor , unflinchingly . |
| 24 | He smiled back at his mother in gratitude , but when she made to put a consoling arm around his shoulders he moved aside . |
| 25 | He smiled back at his brother . |
| 26 | He sat down at his desk , straightening his things that Lee had moved , putting them where they had been before , in the exact spot . |
| 27 | as if that kind of world were possible or real , he sat down at his desk and wrote cheques for the bills . |
| 28 | He sat down at his desk , not looking at Morris , his face rigid with anger . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't regard Jews as a class , ’ he snapped back at his questioner , ‘ I regard them as a privileged misfortune . ’ |