Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have suggested already that he is all The Dubliners combined — the lost child , the resigned girl , the lonely or frustrated man , the seeker of false comfort — now I want to come at his importance from a different angle . |
| 2 | She tried to look at his features . |
| 3 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |
| 4 | But he had used their bathroom and was back in bed again before he realized that he had forgotten to look at his daughter . |
| 5 | Titian would be a great master even if the time should come when nobody wants to look at his paintings . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The poet is no longer regarded as a visionary or a genius ; he becomes a skilled worker who arranges , or rather , rearranges the material that he happens to find at his disposal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thérèse came to kneel at his feet . |
| 10 | She kept her eyes on his shirt-front , not daring to look at his face ; to see his anger . |
| 11 | He wanted to make music — an angry torrent of sound — and was jealous to the gut of the young soloist who was going to perform at his piano on his stage tonight . |
| 12 | Tait intends to remain at his Berkshire base until the 1994 World Championships , after which he may return to his native New Zealand . |
| 13 | Talbot could n't even begin to guess at his nationality except that he was n't Greek . |
| 14 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 15 | " You 're a fraud , Richard , " Graham said , turning to look at his friend . |
| 16 | Patrick turned to look at his sister . |
| 17 | Gregson turned to look at his companion . |
| 18 | ‘ … you 've only got to look at his star sign . ’ |
| 19 | So we 've now got to go back and revisit it , he 's full up er , we 've got to look at his client , client load er and we 've got to find other ways in which we can actually service the due diligence work , still using him very much as the marketing focus to er the initiative and continue the the growth . |
| 20 | He waited , watching John 's hands shielding the spark from the tinder , and the moment he finished , he turned to descend at his back . |
| 21 | ‘ I offered him a bed in our relatives ' hostel , but he prefers to stay at his club , and , as he has this spinal arthritis , is bringing his own car and the man who looks after him . |
| 22 | He looked at her knitting , which continued , approaching the heel of the sock in progress , and wondered if she was ever going to glance at his card on the counter . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And twice as impossible while an insistent question , as tormenting as any nightmare , began to beat at his brain . |
| 25 | He began to beat at his head with his gloved hands as his face began to sink into the floor . |
| 26 | Mahmoud gave a cry of disgust and began to beat at his legs . |
| 27 | The first sight of activation was a rattling from the bottom of the Bowl as the stones began to move against each other , the second , a distinctly acidic odour rising to jab at his sinuses , the third , and most startling , the sudden ricocheting of one pebble , then two , then a dozen , across the Bowl and back , several skipping higher than the rim . |
| 28 | My hackles began to rise at his tone but I kept my voice calm . |
| 29 | To avoid such problems a technologist may wish to have at his disposal a rough guide to aid the selection of solvents for a polymer or to assess the extent of polymer-liquid interaction other than those already described . |
| 30 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |