Example sentences of "that he [verb] at his [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As the Empress Eugénie remarked : ‘ It was for him a cannon ball that he dragged at his feet all his life . ’
2 His right hand was half hidden by the cover flap of the holster that he wore at his belt .
3 The way in which the contours of objects are continually broken in Cézanne 's painting reinforces the impression that he looked at his subject from more than one position .
4 That he emerged at his door shaking is not in doubt .
5 He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn .
6 It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case .
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