Example sentences of "he [verb] at the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 2 | Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site . |
| 3 | Tommy Cooper talking at length about when he ruled at the Den and we 'll be talking to about his Norwegian career and his arrival at the City ground . |
| 4 | He winked at the Duke and called across to him , ‘ What a grand thing , your Honour , to have a wedding without a minister ! ’ |
| 5 | They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known . |
| 6 | He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said . |
| 7 | He winced at the sight and drew back as though she had struck him . |
| 8 | He stopped at the door and smiled at her . |
| 9 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 10 | Well when I was last playing with it that James kept on er in and in that erm he stopped at the station and I have to take it like that far enough cos I wanted Gordon to be there so he co could pick up the express pick , up the coaches |
| 11 | He stopped at the Pâtisserie and emerged with an elegant box bearing the insignia of the French Federation of Master Bakers . |
| 12 | He stopped at the fence and looked down at her seriously . |
| 13 | Eventually he stopped at the window-seat and sat down by Elisabeth : ‘ He says we should ask Fru Gertlinger and Fru Børre to act as caretakers of the houses on the usual terms until further notice . |
| 14 | He finishes at the front and brings the machine round to the back lawn where my sister is having her picnic . |
| 15 | ‘ Go on ! ’ he shouted at the mare and scraped his spurs hard down her flanks . |
| 16 | Now he gapes at the cup and saucer , tottering at the end of his extended arm . |
| 17 | After the Zombie 's travels through Victorian London ( where , incidentally , he committed the crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper ) he arrived at the Grange and enlisted the help of Tick , a deformed coachman of evil character ( played by Charles Paris ) . |
| 18 | Primaflora was absent when he arrived at the villa and when she returned , an hour later , she was wearing a girdle and a left sleeve he had never seen before , and a jewelled coif with a curled feather in it . |
| 19 | He nodded at the photographer and flipped another butt into the toilet , then pressed the flush . |
| 20 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |
| 21 | He stares at the door and his eyes lose focus . |
| 22 | He flexed at the knees and rose slowly . |
| 23 | Andrew , now 29 , was 15 that summer when he knocked at the door and introduced himself . |
| 24 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 25 | He glanced at the clock and nodded his approval without breaking the rhythm created by his fingers on the strings . |
| 26 | He glanced at the clock and had a strange feeling that he had to do something — there was somewhere he ought to be . |
| 27 | He tugs at the straps and they sound |
| 28 | I 've always admired Ben Hogan for the way he worked at the game and the determination he showed to succeed . |
| 29 | Well my father , when we lived there he worked at the Colliery and he used to walk home and during he s , before before he m before the strike we used to have these pheasants and things , and rabbits which he used to catch , because early morning he seemed to know exactly where to go to get a a pheasant that was roosting in a tree , you see or a bush . |
| 30 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |