Example sentences of "[vb past] at his [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police officer gaped at his Swiss Police knife . |
| 2 | Meredith fumed at his liquefying eyes and the contemptuous curl of his sculpted mouth . |
| 3 | Buckmaster dabbed at his thin lips with his napkin . |
| 4 | He folded complacent white hands over his considerable girth and frowned at his two listeners . |
| 5 | After a painstaking analysis of the data , Kepler arrived at his three laws of planetary motion , that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun , that a line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times , and that the square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun . |
| 6 | The soldier , his eyes dead and full of drink , shrugged and grinned at his two companions , sallow , pimply youths already much the worse for wine . |
| 7 | Dennis glanced at his tasting notes . |
| 8 | The mercenary looked them up and down once again , saw the almost joyful light in Isay 's eyes , and then glanced at his own men behind him . |
| 9 | She quailed at his heartless words , afraid of discovering that her adored father had feet of clay but determined to face the truth . |
| 10 | Gedanken stared at his bare feet . |
| 11 | Brought suddenly back to a world of misunderstandings , she stared at his broad shoulders in dismay . |
| 12 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 13 | Discomfited , they stared at his heaving shoulders . |
| 14 | He just stared at his outstretched feet . |
| 15 | Dr John Foley sat at the head of the table , and looked at his five sons . |
| 16 | And when the messenger had made his reverence and limped out from the presence , Henry turned his head a little , and looked at his closest confidants , but obliquely , out of the corner of a sunken eye , and dismissed them , too . |
| 17 | He looked at his two friends , smiling broadly . |
| 18 | He was not a happy man , and the stern set of his jaw , and the way he hardly ever looked at his two operatives , made Ray Doyle realise that the fat was really in the fire this time . |
| 19 | Chesarynth looked at his sybaritic features and decided his laziness had made him prefer fleshly pleasures to work . |
| 20 | He examined his own hands , looked at his own feet , touched his own face , rubbed his own tongue against his own teeth , breathed in , breathed out . |
| 21 | The pathologist looked at his own hands and stripped off his surgical gloves , dropping them into a plastic bag . |
| 22 | Alyssia looked at his expressive hands , the long , clever fingers , and she wondered how well he really knew this woman . |
| 23 | I looked at his little hands , counted his fingers and wondered how perfect he was . |
| 24 | Michael , waiting at the top , was silently cursing his father as he looked at his younger brothers ' little faces . |
| 25 | He smiled at his own thoughts . |
| 26 | Delaney pushed himself in hard behind her , the door bursting off its hinges as Mahon lunged at his disappearing legs , slicking off a chunk of rubber heel . |
| 27 | Cardiff seized him with a bizarre feeling of savage relief as Jimmy gazed at his bloodied hands . |
| 28 | Her hands fluttered at his upper arms and then clung , her fingers digging desperately into the material of his jacket sleeves to prevent herself sagging and falling . |
| 29 | Jaq wondered at his own motives for wishing to view the mock-Stealer changing back into a woman — teasing , ambivalent motives . |