Example sentences of "he at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 2 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 3 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 4 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 5 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 6 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 7 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |