Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 5 | An astonished officer found him still clinging grimly to the controls as he trundled along at a snail 's pace . |
| 6 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 7 | When we adjourned to the lounge , he glanced down at a newspaper that had been cast aside , commenting in a murmur : ‘ the usual half-finished crossword ! ’ |
| 8 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 9 | He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country . |
| 10 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 11 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 12 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
| 13 | He sat down at a table of one of the outdoor cafés in the square and ordered a glass of wine . |
| 14 | Instead he stayed on at a factory . |