Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 2 | Saturday was the one day on which he seemed to arrive early at the Herald office , but she doubted whether he would have got there yet . |
| 3 | I do not wish you to violate your oath of secrecy or your conscience but , ’ and he tuned to look eagerly at the Bishop , ‘ with His Lordship 's permission , I would like to take you aside and quietly ask you one question ? |
| 4 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 5 | One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman . |
| 6 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 7 | The porter , whom he had swept past at the entrance to the close , hurried up , his peaked cap rattling to and fro on his small head . |
| 8 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 9 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 10 | He had wept almost at the calling up of Michael Soames , who he thought might never dance again , but had given us a most glowing description of an Egyptian hand dance by Mr Anton Dolin . |
| 11 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 12 | the other one , but even though it opens outwards , a bit comes in and a bit comes out and so he had to chip away at the |
| 13 | Marius had confessed that he had crippled a Turkish immigrant in Stockholm and Alex was told the registration number of the Land Rover he had left behind at the German frontier when he had deserted . |
| 14 | And now , as he sat staring fixedly at the floral configuration on the faded green carpet , he felt a little sad as he thought of Laura , his wife for only the last couple of years . |
| 15 | For a moment he stood gazing balefully at the Corsican 's back as he turned away to pass on down the line . |