Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 2 | He snarled at the old woman . |
| 3 | He was trying to joke but he was unable to smile as he looked at the old cow . |
| 4 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're proud of it , are n't you , Aged ? ’ said Wemmick , his face losing all its usual hardness as he looked at the old man . |
| 6 | He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be . |
| 7 | Now , as he looked at the old woman , his expression became soft , almost tender . |
| 8 | He stared at the old man . |
| 9 | AN alleged IRA gunman wore nothing but a pair of boxer shorts when he appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday charged with murder . |
| 10 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |