Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had begun to tremble at the very thought . |
| 2 | If Ricky was there Perdita might not make a scene , but he had paused to look at the front gate which needed mending . |
| 3 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 4 | The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping . |
| 5 | At first he had tried to look at the newspapers regularly to search for job vacancies and had sent application forms to prospective employers . |
| 6 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 7 | Prices were down by around 50% by comparison to two years ago in the hope of moving stock : Willy d'Huysser from Belgium , for example , with a very fine choice of works , offered a Jannis Kounellis sculpture of 1976 for FFr850,000 which he had failed to sell at the Salon de Mars in Paris last year for FFr1.2 million . |