Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out . |
| 2 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 3 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 4 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 5 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |
| 6 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 7 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |
| 8 | With his second cup of tea in front of him , he sat down to look at the newspaper . |
| 9 | John feels better , so he comes down to sit at the kitchen table and chat . |