Example sentences of "as he [vb past] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heavy black eyebrows made him look fearsome as he glared unbelievingly at Hank . |
| 2 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 3 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 4 | Then he smiled , as he looked fondly at Leith , and said softly , ‘ But I 'm sure there 's a lot about Leith that I 've still got to learn . ’ |
| 5 | It was all a flashback to his own childhood and to his father , Trent thought as he looked across at Mariana . |
| 6 | An image of Green 's bared head as he looked down at Harriet 's body came into her mind and of his face and expression . |
| 7 | Richie 's glass eye glinted as he looked sideways at Patrick . |
| 8 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 9 | The victim was confronted by a group of youths and stabbed four times as he walked home at Bletchley in Milton Keynes . |
| 10 | ‘ Hey , this Belpan one crazy place , ’ Miguelito remarked , head cocked to one side as he glanced over at Trent . |
| 11 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
| 12 | Wolsey 's hard eyes softened as he gazed back at Benjamin . |
| 13 | I managed , as he slumped down at table to eat . |
| 14 | ‘ What on earth made you take the cloth , anyway ? ’ said Reginald as he squatted down at Elaine 's side . |