Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |
| 4 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 5 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 8 | But he had also hinted at a sexual relationship with one of his American university professors , and with the editor of a certain American music magazine , with whom he had spent a vacation in Hairi . |
| 9 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 10 | He had previously stayed at the hotel on twelve or thirteen occasions , but had never before occupied a room on the ground floor . |
| 11 | The deceased replied that he had already signed at the top of the document . |
| 12 | Could n't they have waited just another couple of weeks until he had officially retired at the end of the month ? |
| 13 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
| 14 | South of Naples he had once lunched at a restaurant where they had endeavoured to translate the menu into English . |
| 15 | He admitted that this was the first time he had really looked at the stoma and that he found the appearance and the smell rather offensive . |
| 16 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 17 | Holding the cow 's tail he leaned on the hairy back and , empty-eyed , blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset And of course , since the going was heavy , it just would happen that the job took much longer than usual . |