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

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1 Mrs Orton took it upon herself , watching him pick at a little heap of sprouts and chestnut , to observe that he had very likely made himself ill with being faddy .
2 But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged .
3 He glanced at Lambert and saw him blaze at a green-and-yellow plane , then bank hard away as tracer scorched past .
4 It is hard to imagine him coming at a better time as we plan to make our first Diocesan Assembly the centrepiece of his visit , on Saturday 10th June .
5 She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body .
6 And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct .
7 John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end .
8 Standing off-set can present a smaller target area to the opponent and , by forcing him to strike at an alternative area , can trap him into leaving himself wide open .
9 They can put the case for the minister 's decision , copy his style , anticipate hostile points and leave him feeling at a great advantage in any conflict .
10 Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals .
11 They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’
12 Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side .
13 He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead .
14 About to leave the room with the intention of driving immediately away , he checked at a slight sound by the open door to the outside and looked around .
15 True to form , he attacked at an unexpected moment .
16 He points at the official entrance to a snake 's residence .
17 He winked at the other man who was watching Oliver sullenly .
18 Richard Roberts seized the opportunity to contract with landowners for the purchase of their wood and furze crop , which he sold at a handsome profit to the tinners .
19 Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy .
20 He takes his time strolling over , and when he gets here he sits at the far end of the bench like he does n't know me .
21 Slowly raising his head , Ross stared down at his wife , his grey eyes stormy with passion as he gazed at the blonde hair forming a golden halo about her head , and the creamy skin of her naked body , gleaming in the light of the soft lamps .
22 He looked down , and as he gazed at the sleeping child his eyes glittered with what looked suspiciously like unshed tears .
23 ‘ He 's wonderful , ’ he gasped , as he gazed at the little face and held each tiny hand , studying the miniature nails in wonderment .
24 He gazed at the assembled company .
25 Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier .
26 He looks at a wooden fence , a section of which was ripped away when the dead man fell back with the bullet in his heart , and he suggests what must have happened .
27 Jack Spier has trouble keeping his emotions under control whenever he looks at the Red Cross letter from his parents saying goodbye .
28 this fixed fee competitive scenario , then we will insist that we are actually comparing apples with apples and not apples with pears , whe when the client looks at our fee and he looks at an external consultant 's or another railway internal consultant 's fee
29 He frowns at the little mound of coarse white powder , then claps his hand to his mouth , and swallows .
30 He 's been granted bail , provided he lives at a secret address .
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