Example sentences of "he [vb -s] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statue to him stands at the junction of Seagate and Castle Street , Irvine . |
| 2 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 3 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 4 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 5 | He looks at the mess on the controls . |
| 6 | If he looks at the dates of all those expressions , he will see that we published our statement in May , even after my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) had made his remarks . |
| 7 | Finally , he looks at the availability of the basic data which are accessible to researchers in child care ; to the kind of housekeeping information that should be kept by organizations and which if it is , makes it unnecessary for researchers to start from scratch every time . |
| 8 | He looks at the bags of plasma : 15,000 ccs have been moved through Ali . |
| 9 | He looks at the BBC with a cold outsider 's eye , makes the right sort of noises ( stressing ‘ impartiality ’ , lambasting sloppy Lime Grove journalism ) and is unafraid to alter or cancel potentially controversial programmes . |
| 10 | He looks at the window over Tite 's shoulder and says something like : ‘ Oh … early days yet . ’ |
| 11 | But I would make clear to Mr if he looks at the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , that the suggestion of the director of property services wastes his time fully exploring all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate , for which he probably asks for a large amount of money , since it involves an enormous amount of wasted time , is not been agreed , it 's a non-delegated item , it was a recommendation of this committee which has not been moved at this committee , and it was a most unfortunate and woolly form of words . |
| 12 | He looks at the front of her clothing and makes a note . |
| 13 | He looks at the city through the diverse eyes of Kevin Kline 's anxious but sympathetic lawyer , Steve Martin 's greedily exploitative film maker and Danny Glover 's endangered tow-truck driver . |
| 14 | He scratches at the spots on his arm , pulling soiled nails hard across the red blemishes . |
| 15 | He lies at the edge of the town , |
| 16 | The insider must also know that the information he holds at the time of the trades in question is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 17 | He worries at the extent to which known Felix pictures have disappeared in the last 30 years , and can detail those that have gone missing from Brighton , The Oval and a Piccadilly pub . |
| 18 | Suppose that he starts at the pole in Fig. 3.8 with the local vector a shown there . |
| 19 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |
| 20 | Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . " |
| 21 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 22 | He arrives at the Forum in the Tony and Olivier award-winning play M. |
| 23 | He hesitates at the prospect of total nudity . |
| 24 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 25 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |
| 26 | He gestures at the building behind him , as if trying to distract the animal 's attention . |
| 27 | Mr Kundra added : ‘ He stays at the flat from time to time — perhaps two or three times a year . ’ |
| 28 | Dwelly in fact lists many of the plant names in Cameron , on occasion presenting corrected forms of them , but also draws on other sources which he cites at the front of his dictionary . |
| 29 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 30 | He smiles at the reflection in the mirror and it too adopts the smile that says nothing . |