Example sentences of "he [verb] at his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he wonders at his own sanity when he hears of the wealth of some of his rivals . |
| 2 | He licked at his damaged hand with his enormous soft pink tongue , just like a dog washing itself . |
| 3 | He arrived at his final year at high school in good fettle and with enough good grades to get to university if he wanted . |
| 4 | His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his ! |
| 5 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 6 | Tottenham fans are still waiting to see the England Under-21 international produce the scintillating form that he displayed at his former club Portsmouth . |
| 7 | He glanced at his sodden list under the street-lamp . |
| 8 | He glanced at his young companion ; a thin scrag of a man , with a long thin nose and small sunken eyes . |
| 9 | He glanced at his young colleague , Matthew . |
| 10 | He laughed at his own naïvety , his gullibility . |
| 11 | He laughed at his own pleasantry . |
| 12 | He laughed at his own wit . |
| 13 | It had been a fanciful idea , flying out of there , and he laughed at his own foolishness . |
| 14 | He laughed at his own joke . |
| 15 | He laughed at his own joke . |
| 16 | He laughed at his own joke . |
| 17 | He died at his elder son 's house in Wimbledon 17 March 1956 . |
| 18 | He found the personal habits of the coolie recruiter deeply repugnant and this only increased the resentment he felt at his helpless dependence on him for replacements to his dwindling labor force . |
| 19 | But as Storr demonstrates with the aid of two stunningly beautiful passages from Churchill 's early novel Savrola , the pen was better suited to delineating the bleak impotence he felt at his innermost core . |
| 20 | He looked at his stricken family and he patted this mangy dog very fondly on the back and said : ‘ Boys , our troubles are over ! ’ |
| 21 | He looked at his wounded colleague and did the job himself . |
| 22 | Strange , even when he looked at his eldest son , whom he knew to resemble her , he could not remember Mary 's face . |
| 23 | He looked at his slim gold wrist-watch and Claudia shook her head at Myra 's obvious intention of telling him that Dana did exist . |
| 24 | He looked at his empty glass and shrugged . |
| 25 | He looked at his own face staring back , with Billie 's face next to it . |
| 26 | He looked at his pale gold wife , her arms folded about her belly . |
| 27 | He stared at his unconscious friend . |
| 28 | He stared at his old neighbour trying to puzzle out why she looked so different . |
| 29 | In horrified disbelief he stared at his empty hand . |
| 30 | ‘ There is no argument for the reduction of Scots MPs , ’ he said at his final press conference in London . |