Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I saw an unusual sight : the admiral in shirtsleeves and braces sitting astride a very low dressing-table stool and gazing keenly at his reflection in the mirror , the ADC on his knees behind him brushing the curls at the back of his head . |
| 2 | Gazing down at his wife as she glared up at him , tossing back her blonde hair in an imperious gesture , Ross was suddenly reminded of a proud , possessive lioness guarding her cubs . |
| 3 | He kept writing while holding a job as store 's manager at Ampleforth and still finds time to sit down at his word processor . |
| 4 | He sits down at his desk and opens his diary . |
| 5 | He watched , open-mouthed , as Donald beamed down at his Chicken Thallium . |
| 6 | Mr Brown gazed down at his plate and nodded . |
| 7 | Howard sits tensely at his drawing-board , his mouth tight shut , his eyes gazing unseeing at the paper , rigid with anxiety to produce a good big handle . |
| 8 | He sucked slowly at his pipe and blew out a cloud of smoke which disappeared into the haze all around us . |
| 9 | I saw Rozanov glance discreetly at his watch . |
| 10 | Howard looks down at his plate , grinning , and pressing a few crumbs of cheese on to his fingers to nibble . |
| 11 | At the same time as trying to knot the heavyish material he peered down at his stomach . |
| 12 | The new student will be expected to train daily at his home and attend a club training session at least twice a week . |
| 13 | She made no answer , but rose from the chair , knowing when she was beaten , even though she was fuming inside at his high-handedness . |
| 14 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 15 | Sir Roy Watts , the Chairman of Thames Water , has gone missing after being dropped off at his flat in London . |
| 16 | He made his eighteenth-century reader aware of the travel difficulties , and how they were surmounted — on steep hills by precipices the Highlander and his horse go carefully , the rider sometimes walking , always with a guide : ‘ The horseman has always at his side a native of the place , who , by pursuing game , or tending cattle , or often being employed in messages or conduct , has learned where the ridge of the hill has breadth sufficient to allow a horse and his rider a passage , and where the moss or bog is hard enough to bear them . ’ |
| 17 | Isabel sighed again as the horse moved off at his signal , breaking easily into a canter . |
| 18 | ‘ Let's get back upstairs , ’ she said En route Maggie hunted through several bedrooms until she found suitable dry clothes , while Bryce stopped off at his bedroom on the staff floor and also changed . |
| 19 | He had no idea the 2.30pm appointment he fixed up at his home in Rochester Way , Darlington , would last five hours . |
| 20 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 21 | Our political correspondent Fiona Ross , looks back at his career . |
| 22 | Clarissa was asleep in her carry-cot and Christopher was painting noisily at his easel . |
| 23 | Stephen laughed , and Felix felt vaguely resentful , but it was fine at the moment to see his friend laughing even at his expense , so he brushed the mood away and continued with an invention about Mao studying Princess Anne 's record at gymkhanas . |
| 24 | Alan continued to work hard at his course , and Carolyn looked after the baby and kept house . |
| 25 | He picked up his fork , prodded ineffectually at his stew for some moments , and then withdrew his left hand from hers . |
| 26 | He looks hard at his friend . |
| 27 | Li Yuan looked across at his father , his eyes narrowed . |
| 28 | While the wife of Ngo Van Loc served his breakfast and poured coffee the American boy peered anxiously at his father . |
| 29 | She will have spent the last 30 years of their marriage sitting in the passenger seat of the car which she is still unable to drive , disappearing into the kitchen when his climbing friends call round for a beer , and laughing dutifully at his mountain anecdotes over a dinner she has made for his boss . |
| 30 | He or she will glance ostentatiously at his watch , as if to indicate that an expected arrival is late for an appointment and if he happens to meet the glance of a passer-by , he will more often than not look once again at his watch and cast a long-suffering glance at heaven ; as if by recruiting sympathy for a familiar predicament he will pre-empt any suspicion of more suspect motives . |