Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 2 | She tried to look at his features . |
| 3 | She tried tugging at his arm , but this time he did n't release her even slightly . |
| 4 | Thinking back now , Creggan could still hear the calls of anger and alarm of his parents , as he hissed at the man coming at him and tried to strike at his hands with his beak and talons . |
| 5 | Bob Collins did n't like it when the past came knocking at his door . |
| 6 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 7 | Barricaded inside , Roger Jones , a 52 year old self-employed electrician , who 'd allegedly threatened with a shotgun 3 men who 'd called at his home . |
| 8 | One day a very poor man came begging at his door . |
| 9 | Mr Shami Hoad , a heating engineer , who arrived at court with his wife Samantha , told Cheltenham magistrates that he 'd arrived at his home at Alma Place in Gloucester in July last year to find 2 strange men in his house . |
| 10 | A BOY yesterday told how he had developed dizzy spells and a craving for chocolate soon after a nurse accused of murdering four children came to live at his home . |
| 11 | Thérèse came to kneel at his feet . |
| 12 | He looked north to where the City ended abruptly on the shores of the icy Baltic , then turned to smile at his personal secretary , Chang Shih-sen . |
| 13 | Patrick turned to look at his sister . |
| 14 | Gregson turned to look at his companion . |
| 15 | He waited , watching John 's hands shielding the spark from the tinder , and the moment he finished , he turned to descend at his back . |
| 16 | Jack happened to glance at his had . |
| 17 | He promised to take the cast to him in the morning , and I arranged to call at his office at noon to learn what he had discovered from the dentist . |
| 18 | He began to beat at his head with his gloved hands as his face began to sink into the floor . |
| 19 | And twice as impossible while an insistent question , as tormenting as any nightmare , began to beat at his brain . |
| 20 | Mahmoud gave a cry of disgust and began to beat at his legs . |
| 21 | Sharpe , glad that he was not having to ride anywhere , began tugging at his tight boots . |
| 22 | My hackles began to rise at his tone but I kept my voice calm . |
| 23 | He brooded glanced at his wristwatch then poured more coffee from a big silver-plated flask which he had installed himself . |
| 24 | He threw away the useless handle , collapsed on the linoleum and started scrabbling at his clothes with pawlike hands . |
| 25 | I started to claw at his body and rip his pyjamas . |
| 26 | He had not , of course , expected to arrive at his objective quite so easily . |
| 27 | When the load failed to arrive at his firm 's nearby timber yard by 11.30am , he went to the dock to investigate . |
| 28 | Minutes later , Jack went to sit at his stepfather 's bedside in a private ward . |
| 29 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 30 | Parker 's face was a mask of blood and he kept brushing at his eye . |