Example sentences of "he was [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 2 | One moment he was shouting at the boys in the dorm to keep quiet , the next thing he was in the bathroom retching , then out on the landing , heaving and crying out . |
| 3 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 4 | Even when he was looking at the ones like the Carmen at Ivinghoe ) that I think are my best ( or did then ) . |
| 5 | ‘ He was looking at the marks of a ladder just under her window . |
| 6 | In AD 685 St Cuthbert perambulated ‘ illis murum civitatis ’ and also saw a fountain working , implying that there was still a functioning aqueduct ; whether he was looking at the walls of a genuine town or of a fort is arguable . |
| 7 | While he was detained at the police station a number of police-officers used a key taken from the arrested man to enter his mother 's home . |
| 8 | He was educated at the Friends ' School , Rochester , and Grove House , Tottenham . |
| 9 | He was educated at the colleges of Leamington and Llandovery ( Carmarthenshire ) , entered Trinity College , Cambridge , and took his BA degree in 1857 and MA in 1867 . |
| 10 | He was standing at the nurses ’ station , leaning one elbow casually on the high desk as he talked to Judy Stack . |