Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 2 | Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London . |
| 3 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 4 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 5 | He kicks moodily at the carpet . |
| 6 | He looks up at the class . |
| 7 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 8 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 9 | He looks longingly at the teapot and the tiny red cups . |
| 10 | When I ask our guide who lives there , he glances disapprovingly at the slums . |
| 11 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 12 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 13 | ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him . |
| 14 | One per over per batsman is the ration , with a bouncer being defined as a ball passing over the batsman 's shoulder as he stands upright at the crease . |
| 15 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 16 | He shoots twice at the cashier , but misses both times . |
| 17 | Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination . |
| 18 | And he smiles afresh at the thought of what that particular victory meant to everyone who witnessed it . |
| 19 | He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country . |
| 20 | He still has a still has a few technical problems with his speeches , his voice is very thin , he falls away at the end of sentences and when he rises to a crescendo his voice is like the distance whine of an aeroplane engine but what he said was exactly what they wanted to hear a return to family life and strong law and order . |
| 21 | He gazes thoughtfully at a spot about halfway up the wall , blinking slowly . |
| 22 | ‘ If things are as you say , then a man can never be sure of his wife ; never be sure that he 'll find her there when he comes home at the end of the day . |