Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got quite angry at the impossibility of Clarissa having given any such instructions . |
| 2 | He looks very quiet at the moment . |
| 3 | His father had links with South Africa , and from 1910 to 1914 he worked as assistant at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria . |
| 4 | How that might change his nature , there 's the question ’ mean that he is determined to become emperor , and if he did , he may well become a tyrant and abuse his power , although he seems very noble at the moment . |
| 5 | But after all the trouble that he himself had taken to be friendly , he felt so cross at the way in which Fiver had antagonized their new friends that as he passed Bigwig , he said , " Come and help me to get some sense into him . |
| 6 | He felt quite excited at the thought of such a good name . |
| 7 | He looked quite morose at the treatment handed out to cadavers . |
| 8 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |