Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 2 | He must sit upright at a table to eat his meals : he can not eat off a tray sitting in bed or an easy chair . |
| 3 | He 'll go anywhere at the ring of a phone , and he spends much time on the road . |
| 4 | The difference was that he could go home at the end of every shift . |
| 5 | Or if by any chance the boat was not there , or too securely chained , he could swim across at a pinch . |
| 6 | And he could gain much at a peace conference , without having to fight for it . |
| 7 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 8 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |
| 9 | If anyone was to blame , it was the anti-drugs policy of successive governments , and especially president Richard Nixon 's , but that 's another talking point on which he would hold forth at the drop of a hat . |
| 10 | He could exhibit a saint-like submissiveness , become a mere servant of art , willing to learn from anyone ; he would sit patiently at the bedsides of the sick and dying , painting unhappy men and women and feeling awe before peasant earth-mothers , but he could never be coerced into doing anything against his will . |
| 11 | At the end of each evening he would stumble home at an hour when most of the villagers were in bed asleep . |
| 12 | Joshua 6 ends with a curse pronounced over the charred corpses of the city 's inhabitants , promising anyone who might rebuild the city that he will do so at the cost of the lives of his own children . |
| 13 | Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July . |
| 14 | Offiah is hoping he can fly home at the weekend in readiness for the reconstruction surgery on his shoulder on Tuesday . |