Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun sg] 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 He spent his war at the Bolsover Colliery in Derbyshire .
16 His weight increased as he spent his time at the club in conversation , and occasionally at Lord 's for matches and dinner gatherings .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 He started his training at the University of Cape Town Ballet School in August 1944 .
21 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 .
22 He repeated his threat at the constituent congress of the Democratic Reform Movement ( DRM — see p. 38347 ) on Dec. 15 .
23 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 " .
24 Its straight up that side — ’ he waved his clipboard at the hill — 'but it twists this side .
25 ‘ For two miles across the dunes , ’ he waved his hand at the lumpy landscape , ‘ there are walks for naturists .
26 He waved his hand at the firewood .
27 ‘ Harry Martin … the word 's out that you 're interested in how he conducts his business at the moment , and of course that must cause untold problems , or would do if you were n't able to separate your professional and personal life . ’
28 He took his seat at the fireside , mug in hand , and glanced across at her .
29 ASTON VILLA are set to offer a new contract to goalkeeper Nigel Spink — six months after he thought his career at the club might be over .
30 He knew my address at the university but had not written .
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