Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He merely sat at the coffee counter there , hour after hour , alone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He just stared at the Duchess . |
| 4 | He just stared at the water . |
| 5 | He just stared at the tablecloth . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 8 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 9 | He finally arrived at a compromise with her , which was that he could have three independent , non-civil servant , advisers . |
| 10 | Jesus was busy , but he still looked at the crowd and saw them . |
| 11 | He still stared at the cliff top . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He always sat at the end of the second coach , in the small , first-class compartment with red plush seats . |
| 14 | He repeats one he once told at an audition for a right-on theatre company . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He also hinted at a release of a new machine next year . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This he clearly achieved at the world championships in Okinawa , Japan , last year . |
| 21 | But because of the cloth ’ — he now pulled at the front of his collarless coat — ‘ they either think that one is n't quite human and is devoid of all these naughty feelings that trouble an ordinary man , or they imagine you hold all the answers . |
| 22 | In between such anguished pleas , there were long and embarrassing silences while he simply stared at the floor . |
| 23 | He even ate at the soup kitchen to save money and time . |
| 24 | He then knelt at the block like a priest before his prie dieu . |
| 25 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 26 | Again he paused ; then lifting the cup , he almost gulped at the tea before saying , No , they are both … dead . ’ |
| 27 | And he almost groaned at the sight of her . |
| 28 | But on Channel 21 ( of our 42 ! ) when a Baptist minister was asked about homosexuality he almost frothed at the mouth : ‘ … an abomination … |
| 29 | He again looked at the pile of tins . |
| 30 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |