Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 2 | Nor was he much impressed at the Liskeard inns of the times , or at least one : ‘ … a tavern of despair frowned amid congenial desolation ’ . |
| 3 | Instead , stiff legged , he merely bends at the waist like a man twice his 37 years . |
| 4 | He merely sat at the coffee counter there , hour after hour , alone . |
| 5 | He was 64 — and too late : Boswell had already told Lady Macleod , therefore Johnson could not avoid the embarrassment he obviously felt at the prospect of congratulations . |
| 6 | He just stared at the Duchess . |
| 7 | He just stared at the water . |
| 8 | He just stared at the tablecloth . |
| 9 | He just looked at the cookies on the table and at the cake Mama had just frosted . |
| 10 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
| 11 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 12 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 13 | He finally arrived at a compromise with her , which was that he could have three independent , non-civil servant , advisers . |
| 14 | he not sitting at the front |
| 15 | If it has proved impossible to find positive evidence in favour of Mecdi 's claim , one can , perhaps , question what appears to be Taskopruzade 's on the grounds that no source for the life of Hizir Bey records that he ever taught at the Darulhadis , and , indeed , only . |
| 16 | Jesus was busy , but he still looked at the crowd and saw them . |
| 17 | He still stared at the cliff top . |
| 18 | Yeah , well er , yeah well go down there I mean he still lives at the back of the shops still just ask him |
| 19 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 20 | He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters . |
| 21 | He always sat at the end of the second coach , in the small , first-class compartment with red plush seats . |
| 22 | He repeats one he once told at an audition for a right-on theatre company . |
| 23 | He usually guessed at the contents of letters , and stood around waiting for his guesses to be confirmed . |
| 24 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 25 | The Rev. John Kingdon , the Baptist minister , had two other ceremonies to perform that day , as he also officiated at the burials of Mary Whiting , aged 77 , and a deaf and dumb girl of 45 years , Christiana Yerbury . |
| 26 | He also wrote at the court of the patriarch of Aquileia , and approached the Emperor Frederick II with a series of poems in about 1236 . |
| 27 | He also hinted at a release of a new machine next year . |
| 28 | Regarding Mahler 's own tempo , Kaplan cites a timing of seven and a half minutes written into the score that he probably used at the première , as well as the timing of seven minutes written by a player into a double-bass part used at Mahler 's last performance of the Adagietto , in St Petersburg in 1907 . |
| 29 | He probably smiled at the dogs and kids and kites the exact same way . |
| 30 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |