Example sentences of "[adv] he would [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got you home he would strip at once , taking everything off right there and laying his clothes down on the hall floorway as if he had to be naked at once , methodically removing every item . |
| 2 | He took the notebook with him ; sometimes he would sit at a desk or table and write , losing any idea of time or place , roused later by the discovery that his leg had gone numb or he had cramp in his foot . |
| 3 | That was the way his mind worked ; he would be struck by a sentence or a phrase , then he would worry at it , turning it this way and that . |
| 4 | Time and time again he would stare at the ground , hand on hip , if he thought he had received a bad call , and then swallow his anger and play tennis . |
| 5 | Now and again he would glance at me . |