Example sentences of "he [verb] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 2 | He gazed at the deep reds , purples and blues that dominated the central figure in the painting , feeling certain he 'd seen the image somewhere before . |
| 3 | He gazed at the two scraps of blue thread and the single button as if they were the contents of Aladdin 's cave and then turned admiring eyes on Melissa . |
| 4 | He gazed at the two Sub-prioresses who were staring fixedly at him . |
| 5 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 6 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 7 | The author is on stronger ground when he looks at the technical characteristics of various modes . |
| 8 | Brian Robinson , I believe , has every right to feel aggrieved when he looks at the other members of the back row . |
| 9 | In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk . |
| 10 | They 're simply irresistible , says Graham Rice , as he looks at the best types to grow |
| 11 | How right you are Mr Deputy Speaker , of course I could n't go into this because it 's out of order but on the other hand I would simply say to the honourable gentleman if he looks at the basic policies , the basic flaw of the E C is it ca n't solve problems and all these new M E Ps we 're thinking of sending over I think we should bear in mind the problem , they 're going over to something where problems ca n't be solved . |
| 12 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 13 | He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card . |
| 14 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 15 | He gestured at the dog-eaten hoofs and roots of buffalo horn which stretched before us . |
| 16 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 17 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 18 | He frowned at the pencilled details . |
| 19 | ‘ Get her off me , he bellowed at the other grooms . |
| 20 | Tense muscles played around his jaw ; he scowled at the stubborn laces and tugged . |
| 21 | He glanced at the two men in the back . |
| 22 | He glanced at the working slaves , and saw that their skin ran with fluid from fresh blisters and their eyes were bloodshot , the eyebrows and lashes singed to nothing ; many of them walked awkwardly , as if they had become deformed . |
| 23 | He looked at the unrolled papers , then drawled nonchalantly , ‘ As you 've already studied them , I presume you 'll know exactly what they are . ’ |
| 24 | He looked at the other screens : each provided a different perspective of the same scene . |
| 25 | He looked at the other things on Philip 's wall , the pictures from the nature calendar , the photograph of Uncle Walter 's brother , his Uncle John with his platoon in the War . |
| 26 | He looked at the other men in the room , his eyes resting on his father . |
| 27 | He looked at the foreign controls . |
| 28 | He looked at the eager girls and the officers in their cream uniforms . |
| 29 | He stared at the two assistants in their smart white blouses and green aprons . |
| 30 | A COOKSTOWN man was remanded on bail when he appeared at the local Magistrates Court yesterday charged with handling stolen goods valued at £20,000 . |