Example sentences of "he [verb] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed at the deep reds , purples and blues that dominated the central figure in the painting , feeling certain he 'd seen the image somewhere before . |
| 2 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 3 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 4 | The author is on stronger ground when he looks at the technical characteristics of various modes . |
| 5 | Brian Robinson , I believe , has every right to feel aggrieved when he looks at the other members of the back row . |
| 6 | In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk . |
| 7 | How right you are Mr Deputy Speaker , of course I could n't go into this because it 's out of order but on the other hand I would simply say to the honourable gentleman if he looks at the basic policies , the basic flaw of the E C is it ca n't solve problems and all these new M E Ps we 're thinking of sending over I think we should bear in mind the problem , they 're going over to something where problems ca n't be solved . |
| 8 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 9 | He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card . |
| 10 | He gestured at the dog-eaten hoofs and roots of buffalo horn which stretched before us . |
| 11 | He frowned at the pencilled details . |
| 12 | ‘ Get her off me , he bellowed at the other grooms . |
| 13 | Tense muscles played around his jaw ; he scowled at the stubborn laces and tugged . |
| 14 | He glanced at the working slaves , and saw that their skin ran with fluid from fresh blisters and their eyes were bloodshot , the eyebrows and lashes singed to nothing ; many of them walked awkwardly , as if they had become deformed . |
| 15 | He looked at the unrolled papers , then drawled nonchalantly , ‘ As you 've already studied them , I presume you 'll know exactly what they are . ’ |
| 16 | He looked at the other screens : each provided a different perspective of the same scene . |
| 17 | He looked at the other things on Philip 's wall , the pictures from the nature calendar , the photograph of Uncle Walter 's brother , his Uncle John with his platoon in the War . |
| 18 | He looked at the other men in the room , his eyes resting on his father . |
| 19 | He looked at the foreign controls . |
| 20 | He looked at the eager girls and the officers in their cream uniforms . |
| 21 | A COOKSTOWN man was remanded on bail when he appeared at the local Magistrates Court yesterday charged with handling stolen goods valued at £20,000 . |
| 22 | He said that he and Karen could have , he said at the present prices he and this Karen that he 's , that left him er they , they could have had erm a place together because some one bedroom flats , two bedroom flats around are going at thirty five thousand , thirty one . |
| 23 | He pointed at the red lines on the map , which meant little to her . |
| 24 | Then , turning it over , he pointed at the miniature bracelets he had fixed to its ankles . |
| 25 | He pointed at the green pips on the box . |