Example sentences of "he [vb -s] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He looks at the bags of plasma : 15,000 ccs have been moved through Ali . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He scratches at the spots on his arm , pulling soiled nails hard across the red blemishes . |
| 6 | His desire is for the crown , and the way he starts at the witches ' double prophecy shows that he already has it in mind . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | He arrives at the police station . |
| 9 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 10 | He tugs at the straps and they sound |
| 11 | It marks and establishes the arcane authority of the ( usually male ) development expert much more profoundly and severely than his outer lineaments of specialness such as the belted safari suit he wears ‘ in the field ’ and the flap and epaulet-laden trench coat he sports at the conferences he attends with sickening frequency in the West . |
| 12 | He sucks at the stones at the bottom of the tank , and sometimes they get stuck in his mouth . |
| 13 | He sneers at the arguments against it : self-sufficiency and the tired old cultural card . |
| 14 | He stabs at the buttons three times , then wriggles over to the handset and makes muffled shouts through the gag until you cock the gun and he hears it and looks round at where you stand , next to the wall , waving the telephone 's wall-plug . |
| 15 | Billy goes out shooting every day but does not get much as his only weapons are a tennis bat and empty cartridge case which he hits at the birds . |