Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] he [verb] at " in BNC.
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1 | I made him look at me and see how pale I am . |
2 | When I replied he looked at me , then at my colleague , and addressing him , said , ‘ Oh well , at any rate he was born in Canada . ’ |
3 | I heard him shouting at it . |
4 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
5 | My friend was about 50 feet above me and almost out of sight in the fog , when I heard him yell at me to ‘ come and see this ’ . |
6 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
7 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
8 | I saw him looking at her , you know , when |
9 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
10 | The path I took ran past Mr Frankland 's house , and I saw him standing at his gate . |
11 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
12 | I thought he looked at me sadly . |
13 | ‘ I thought he meant at his place , but , of course , he never invited anyone to his home for dinner . |
14 | ‘ I thought he worked at OBEX , ’ said her mother with a frown . |
15 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
16 | From time to time she caught him looking at her , his expression unfathomable , and each time the tension in the cabin seemed to grow . |
17 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
18 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
19 | She found him looking at her a little too intently and lowered her gaze . |
20 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
21 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
22 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
23 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
24 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
25 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
26 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
27 | She thought he looked at her rather searchingly , and she held her breath , for surely there would be strange untold stories about this place and surely he would know of them ? |
28 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
29 | She saw him glance at her gracefully curved female body , as beautiful as any fashion model 's ; but there was no appraisal of her beauty in his eyes . |
30 | She saw him look at his watch again . |