Example sentences of "he [verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 2 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 3 | Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop . |
| 4 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 5 | He beamed at the others . |
| 6 | But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images . |
| 7 | He gazed at the newspapers dully , he convinced himself he must be ill . |
| 8 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 9 | If he looks at the dates of all those expressions , he will see that we published our statement in May , even after my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) had made his remarks . |
| 10 | He looks at the bags of plasma : 15,000 ccs have been moved through Ali . |
| 11 | But I would make clear to Mr if he looks at the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , that the suggestion of the director of property services wastes his time fully exploring all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate , for which he probably asks for a large amount of money , since it involves an enormous amount of wasted time , is not been agreed , it 's a non-delegated item , it was a recommendation of this committee which has not been moved at this committee , and it was a most unfortunate and woolly form of words . |
| 12 | He scratches at the spots on his arm , pulling soiled nails hard across the red blemishes . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll either be here next year — or we 'll have gone under , ’ he quipped at the awards ceremony in London on September 23 . |
| 14 | He presided at the councils of Piacenza and Clermont ( 1095 ) , and preached with fervour war against the infidel , for the defence of Christendom and the recovery of the holy places . |
| 15 | He peered at the children sleeping on the back seat . |
| 16 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 17 | Late one night , he stopped at the gates of a Franciscan monastery to seek shelter . |
| 18 | Otley called as he charged at the Romans . |
| 19 | His desire is for the crown , and the way he starts at the witches ' double prophecy shows that he already has it in mind . |
| 20 | At last , Dulé rose , and forced his dragging limbs to take steps ; he shouted at the fighters with him , and roused them to stand by his side . |
| 21 | He shouted at the men in the cockpit to make fast the rope that led to his neck . |
| 22 | He shouted at the men , came into the room and flailed at them . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll see the enemy infantry soon ! ’ he shouted at the men . |
| 24 | Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . " |
| 25 | He arrives at the police station . |
| 26 | At the basis of his outrageous talent and inevitably the root of his temperamental insecurities , was his diminutive height and the almost vindictive treatment he received at the feet of much bigger and stronger opponents . |
| 27 | He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration . |
| 28 | Consequently he suffered at the polls in the Revolution elections of 1689 and did not enter Parliament until 1690 . |
| 29 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 30 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |