Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried his hand at the Can-Am series in North America . |
| 2 | He jerked his head at the shy . |
| 3 | Mikhail Gorbachev got his hands on a Montego when he visited its home at the Cowley assembly plant in Oxford 7 years ago , just before taking office at Soviet leader . |
| 4 | He wrinkled his nose at the smells , thinking that the cowardly little wretches were trying to keep out of his way . |
| 5 | He told his audience at the French Academy of Political and Moral Sciences : ‘ One of the joys for me of being in France is that you have a particularly strong sense of the ultimate cost to the human spirit of unrelenting migration from the countryside to the big cities . ’ |
| 6 | He claimed his reservation at the Hotel Gul Bejaze , and stayed there for three weeks . |
| 7 | He told me that he fired his gun at the dogs and they ran away . |
| 8 | Sold by Marseille chairman Bernard Tapie after bust-up at a charity match when he threw his shirt at the referee . |
| 9 | He joined his superior at the door , pulling up the collar of his jacket as they stepped out into the street . |
| 10 | He shook his fist at the driver of the estate-car , who had climbed out and was staring blankly across the road . |
| 11 | ‘ He shook his stick at the old man , who stepped back in surprise . |
| 12 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |
| 13 | He jabbed his thumb at the ceiling to reinforce his point . |
| 14 | His lawyer , Alistair Kelman , said : ‘ He spent his life at the end of a terminal . |
| 15 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 16 | He spent his war at the Bolsover Colliery in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | His weight increased as he spent his time at the club in conversation , and occasionally at Lord 's for matches and dinner gatherings . |
| 18 | Again , Jeremiah was doing the Lord 's work as a servant ; in the passage we heard a few moments ago , he expressed his dismay at the manner in which he was being treated by the people . |
| 19 | Writing as he was in the 1930s , he expressed his pleasure at the extensive documentation and reference material available to the student of art , instancing the growth of libraries and art historical teaching . |
| 20 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 21 | In 1904 he began his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , but he returned to England a year later and completed the course at the London Polytechnic . |
| 22 | He raised his eyebrows at the list of names . |
| 23 | He started his training at the University of Cape Town Ballet School in August 1944 . |
| 24 | He started his business at the lower end of the market by chartering whole trains and bringing Lancashire pensioners to small south coast hotels out of season , when they helped to retain key staff and keep the hotel doors open throughout the quiet months . |
| 25 | He repeated his threat at the constituent congress of the Democratic Reform Movement ( DRM — see p. 38347 ) on Dec. 15 . |
| 26 | On 23 May he read his poetry at the National Gallery in Washington , to an audience which included St John Perse , all the time " keeping behind horn-rimmed spectacles an almost unchanging expression " . |
| 27 | Its straight up that side — ’ he waved his clipboard at the hill — 'but it twists this side . |
| 28 | ‘ For two miles across the dunes , ’ he waved his hand at the lumpy landscape , ‘ there are walks for naturists . |
| 29 | He waved his hand at the firewood . |
| 30 | In the same note he claims that , in some sense , he was ‘ more modern ’ than good Pope John ( he mentions his appearances at the Milan Fair as evidence ) ; and says ‘ perhaps our life is marked by love of our own time , of our world more clearly than by anything else ’ ( ibid . ) |