Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 2 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 3 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 4 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 5 | He came across to look at the image open on my lectern : a wild man covered in shaggy green fur was fighting a little hon with a club . |
| 6 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |
| 7 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 8 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |
| 9 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 10 | He went on looking at the disgusting bits . |
| 11 | He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful . |
| 12 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |
| 13 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 14 | He went on staring at the Hare-woman . |
| 15 | Since he did not exhibit at the big Salons his name may not have been as well known to the general public as those of Matisse and Derain , who in the previous years had emerged as the most important and controversial figures in the Fauve movement , but there were a large number of people who believed in his genius . |
| 16 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 17 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
| 18 | He did not look at the still bowing surveyors as he spoke , but at Alexei . |
| 19 | He did not look at the keys . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) has some interesting ways of looking at the problem , but he did not look at the fact that there are proven ways of taking young people who have committed offences and giving them a chance to confront their criminality . |
| 21 | He did not look at the girl by his side , who was almost as tall as himself ; but he went on talking as she tapped her racquet against the netting . |
| 22 | Terry Heneaghan , Pittencrieff 's chief executive , said he did not look at the deal in terms of oil or gas production and reserves which would be acquired , but rather in terms of cash flow which could be generated for his company by rationalising operations of the two companies in parts of the US where they both have interests . |
| 23 | He did n't look at the telephone again . |
| 24 | He did n't look at the boy but stared instead at a potted palm withering in its tub beside the grand piano on the rostrum . |
| 25 | Devlin completes his lecture by returning to a question he had briefly considered at the beginning , and one which is central here ; that of the relationship between the Church and the moral order . |
| 26 | His three spinster daughters , whom he had not registered at the parish church in any way , were all baptised as adults at Badcox . |
| 27 | McKenzie had told him that he had not looked at the videos or magazines for some years before the assault and felt they played no part in his behaviour . |
| 28 | He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law . |
| 29 | He had previously stayed at the hotel on twelve or thirteen occasions , but had never before occupied a room on the ground floor . |
| 30 | The deceased replied that he had already signed at the top of the document . |