Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He plans to accompany Mr Major to his count in Huntingdon and will forgo the election night dinner he planned to host at the Mirabelle .
2 He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger .
3 He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains .
4 Edouard was on horseback ; he stopped to look at the child , who was about eight or nine years old , and exceptionally beautiful .
5 He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff .
6 He bent to look at the fastening , then picked up one of the white stones and struck ; the glass tinkled thinly , a horrible sound .
7 When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement .
8 Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government .
9 His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics .
10 He turned to look at the clock .
11 Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants .
12 And at that moment , as he turned to look at the girl again with a glint of admiration in his eyes , Ronni was aware of a reaction deep inside her .
13 He turned to look at the trees , but they were bare .
14 From time to time he turned to shout at the girl behind him .
15 Then he began to hack at the door-frame .
16 Another agent was recruited to the effort in Charlie 's Restaurant in Washington , where he arranged to sit at the bar with two packets of cigarettes in front of him , so that Secord and North could recognize who he was .
17 He was linked with Cardiff in the summer when he decided to stay at the Brewery Field .
18 He offered to look at the engine of her car , an offer which was gratefully accepted .
19 He went to look at the window sill and there was this think it 's about time You did something about these .
20 You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city .
21 He went to look at the ricks again .
22 He was respectful but unalarmed when the King appeared and after a moment 's silence he chose to laugh at the likeness and the revelation that they were distant cousins ; indeed , so little was Rassendyll impressed that he noted that the King 's mouth lacked ‘ something of the firmness ( or obstinacy ) which was to be gathered from my close-shutting lips ’ .
23 I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) .
24 But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle .
25 In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One !
26 I 've got an appointment with — ’ he paused to look at the name at the foot of the letter which had been included in his holdall at the station ‘ -K .
27 As the teacher put the collar on Sherman he continued to point at the picture and bark very loudly .
28 He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’
29 After two years at this school , he left to study at the School of Art in South Kensington , where he won many prizes .
30 He wanted to arrive at the Stasis in a calm frame of mind ; he wanted to settle himself and prepare for it .
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