Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel . |
| 9 | And Lyon settled the issue in the 72nd minute when he crashed over at the corner for the match-clinching try . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And he was extremely annoyed that evening when he came round at the interval . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He came in at the side door as though he knew his own way . |
| 15 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 16 | So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow . |
| 17 | I said well he reckons it does , he says when he filled up at the garage it were full , he says we had n't got back and it was between the half and three quarters , I said oh I never looked at it |
| 18 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 19 | The man posed as a gas board official when he turned up at the restaurant in Tarrant Street , Arundel , Sussex . |
| 20 | He turned up at the game with his head shaven , Gazza style , to raise money for a children 's cancer charity as part of Friday 's Comic Relief day . |
| 21 | He turned round at the corner of Queen Charlotte 's Alley to look back . |
| 22 | When he arrived back at the hall Bourne was there alone . |
| 23 | He nodded over at the coat that had cost him an arm and a leg . |
| 24 | Kenny Milne , who had to deal with the vagaries of a vicious swirl when he threw in at the lineout , thought that the Hastings ' boot was the big difference between the games against France and Wales . |
| 25 | And he landed out at the Dardanelles , and here they discovered his age he was away near , he was fif about fifty six or something or fifty eight or something and he was out there in the Dar and they packed him straight back home but oh boy he could tell you the stories about America . |
| 26 | The moment he walked in at the door he knew something was very wrong . |
| 27 | Watching as he grinned up at the bus driver , said something and laughed , she felt a hollow ache inside . |
| 28 | He and Sergeant Robins had obviously tried each other 's patience to the limits , but he cheered up at the sight of Dalgliesh and enquired with childish belligerence : |
| 29 | On his arrival in England in 1969 , he signed on at the Jim Russell school and raced in Formula Ford , passing from there to F3 , winning the championship , and moving on in 1970 to F2 for Lotus . |
| 30 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |