Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] he [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My husband was made redundant and I went out to work while he stayed at home to do the chores . |
| 2 | Simon Doggett 's face blanched as he looked at Sharpe 's frayed and blood-drenched uniform . |
| 3 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 4 | Then her heart sank as he grinned at Doreen . |
| 5 | Hassan al-Turabi , 60 , widely regarded as the chief ideologist of the National Islamic Front ( NIF ) regime in Khartoum , was attacked as he arrived at Ottawa airport , Canada on May 25 . |
| 6 | His eyes flickered as he looked at her , and she knew he was searching his mind for a joke . |
| 7 | Instinctively she knew how to pleasure him in return , exalted when he moaned at the delicacy of her touch and begged for her to increase the pressure of her caresses , until they reached the point of no return together , their bodies joining in a union so satisfying , so complete that in that moment of culmination Gina no longer felt a separate entity . |
| 8 | Tallis was tense , ready to duck if he fired at her . |
| 9 | Pepita grew into a fine , beautiful woman and went to work for the banana shippers as her father had done until he retired at sixty-two . |
| 10 | ’ I mean you , curb ! sitting there grinning while he groped at you … |
| 11 | This morning the sky was blue with powder-puff clouds and the sea sparkled so that he was dazzled when he looked at it . |
| 12 | For a moment she thought he was n't going to answer as he stared at his glass , then slowly he raised his eyes to hers . |
| 13 | And when he gets it on , the , the C and D truck it sets off , what happens when he stops at the first set of traffic lights ? or turns out ? |
| 14 | Take the easy path to the summit from the car park at Newton-under-Roseberry and admire the magnificent panoramic views of coast and countryside , just as Cook himself must have done when he lived at Aireyholme Farm below the summit . |
| 15 | None of the four phones would ring if he remained at the desk all day . |
| 16 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |
| 17 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 18 | He frowned as he stared at the brown water still gushing from the tap . |
| 19 | Once the President had retired to his quarters for the short flight , the DDI opened the envelope he 'd been handed when he arrived at the airport . |
| 20 | The king is shown as he appeared at the battle of San Martino , the basal frieze showing the entry into Milan of Piedmontian and French troops following the battle of Magenta . |
| 21 | He was trying to joke but he was unable to smile as he looked at the old cow . |
| 22 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |
| 23 | His eyes narrowed as he looked at her , and seemed to glow with fury , their brown tint lightening almost to gold . |
| 24 | His eyes narrowed as he looked at her . |
| 25 | His eyes suddenly narrowed as he looked at her , and there was a silence charged with meaning between the two of them . |
| 26 | The librarian was grabbed as he worked at Woodhill Prison near Milton Keynes . |
| 27 | Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed . |
| 28 | How any of this was relevant to twentieth-century America was precisely the question that Williams had raised when he jeered at ‘ parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc ’ being presented as ‘ the best in United States poetry ’ . |
| 29 | He grinned as he came at her again . |
| 30 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |