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

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1 He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched .
2 ‘ I do n't suppose ‘ Mrs Smith ’ is the first woman with whom Garry has deceived his wife , and she probably wo n't be the last , ’ she said , her desire for him disappearing at the contempt in his tone .
3 He qualified at the College in 1824 , being rather older than most of the students , and was appointed demonstrator in anatomy by Coleman .
4 Suppose that he starts at the pole in Fig. 3.8 with the local vector a shown there .
5 He shouted at the men in the cockpit to make fast the rope that led to his neck .
6 ‘ We stand first for responsible opposition , ’ he says at an incontro in the palazzo of a Milanese business grandee .
7 He arrives at the Forum in the Tony and Olivier award-winning play M.
8 Consequently he suffered at the polls in the Revolution elections of 1689 and did not enter Parliament until 1690 .
9 He studied at the conservatoire in Frankfurt 1909–11 , and with Carl Beines in Freiburg , and made a youthful début in 1913 as Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Neues Stadt-Theater in Chemnitz , of which his father was director , with instant success .
10 During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed .
11 Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff .
12 A quiet , soft-spoken man , he arrived at the yards in the dark days of 1983 fresh from a difficult stint at British Shipbuilders and it was he who persuaded the Government to allow a management/employee buyout in 1988 .
13 He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket .
14 He flinched at the stoniness in her sky-coloured eyes .
15 He smiles at the reflection in the mirror and it too adopts the smile that says nothing .
16 According to Lincoln 's recollection subsequently , he glanced at a map in his office and decided within ten seconds that the 38th parallel was the correct demarcation line between the zones of American and Soviet occupation .
17 He glanced at the document in front of him .
18 He glanced at the maid in triumph and pushed his way in .
19 Then he glanced at the letter in his hand again , and his face set into a dark , determined expression .
20 He worked at the gasworks in Windsor and Eton and then in the chemical industry before going into private practice in the early 1870s .
21 When he started at the NHS in Scotland in 1989 he took the same approach .
22 Although Jarman is an avid painter ( he exhibited at the ICA in 1984 ) , he did not feel that that medium could extend beyond ‘ one person 's thing ’ .
23 One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again
24 He hinted at a weekend in London at Emlyn Williams 's .
25 He clutched at the hand in panic , and felt the coldness of death .
26 He looked at the basket in surprise .
27 He looked at the lights in the bedroom windows , and wondered which one was hers .
28 When he was looking to expand with another concept , he looked at the labels in his shops for something with a distinctive yet commercial image and decided on this French casualwear label .
29 He looked at the tea in a baffled way .
30 He looked at the sword in Hrun 's hand .
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