Example sentences of "he [vb -s] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points at the official entrance to a snake 's residence . |
| 2 | He takes his time strolling over , and when he gets here he sits at the far end of the bench like he does n't know me . |
| 3 | Jack Spier has trouble keeping his emotions under control whenever he looks at the Red Cross letter from his parents saying goodbye . |
| 4 | He frowns at the little mound of coarse white powder , then claps his hand to his mouth , and swallows . |
| 5 | He ought to swap the doctors that he has at the Serious Fraud Office for those who decide applications for disability allowance and attendance allowance . |
| 6 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 7 | He stares at the hydraulic dentist 's chair , angled up to an empty sky and an open sea . |
| 8 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 9 | Again and again he fails at the offending cornice until , half-buried , half-dead , there is no snow left , the axes bite and he is up . |
| 10 | ‘ I had Barney Summerville in tonight , you know , he works at the big house . |
| 11 | At 63 , he works at the Open University and is another member of the local council . |