Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 2 | He stabbed angrily at the button . |
| 3 | He glowed now at the Archdeacon . |
| 4 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 5 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 6 | Then he gazed absently at the window for some minutes , blinking . |
| 7 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 8 | I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about . |
| 9 | He gazed again at the madonna he had sat beside when her child was just born . |
| 10 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 11 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 12 | He gazed longingly at the sandwiches , Gentleman 's Relish , but he did not take one — neither did Aunt Tossie eat her scone . |
| 13 | He gazed wildly at the neighbour who said crossly , ‘ Jean Powers . |
| 14 | He tried again at the corner and got a smooth rounded canter . |
| 15 | Directly he was in , he jerked impatiently at the reins , called to the horse , and they were off ! |
| 16 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 17 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |
| 18 | Through each performance he would stand at the rear of the audience , his arms crossed and his head sunk down into his body as he peered intently at the stage . |
| 19 | Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel . |
| 20 | He winced slightly at the sharpness in her voice , then bowed his head . |
| 21 | So he says , he stopped right at the side of it right , yes . |
| 22 | And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try . |
| 23 | He stirred uneasily at the suspicions the steward had provoked . |
| 24 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 25 | And he was extremely annoyed that evening when he came round at the interval . |
| 26 | Vice-chairman Sydney Moss revealed : ‘ He came here at the age of four , then stood on the Kop when he was old enough . |
| 27 | He came home at the home did n't you ? |
| 28 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 29 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 30 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |