Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London . |
| 2 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 3 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 4 | He looks up at the class . |
| 5 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 6 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 7 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 8 | ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him . |
| 9 | He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country . |