Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He beamed at the others . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He gazed at the newspapers dully , he convinced himself he must be ill . |
| 4 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll either be here next year — or we 'll have gone under , ’ he quipped at the awards ceremony in London on September 23 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He peered at the children sleeping on the back seat . |
| 8 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 9 | Late one night , he stopped at the gates of a Franciscan monastery to seek shelter . |
| 10 | Otley called as he charged at the Romans . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He shouted at the men in the cockpit to make fast the rope that led to his neck . |
| 13 | He shouted at the men , came into the room and flailed at them . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll see the enemy infantry soon ! ’ he shouted at the men . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration . |
| 17 | Consequently he suffered at the polls in the Revolution elections of 1689 and did not enter Parliament until 1690 . |
| 18 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He gestured at the cliffs . |
| 21 | He gestured at the bottles . |
| 22 | He gestured at the bodies of Rodomonte and Molassi . |
| 23 | A quiet , soft-spoken man , he arrived at the yards in the dark days of 1983 fresh from a difficult stint at British Shipbuilders and it was he who persuaded the Government to allow a management/employee buyout in 1988 . |
| 24 | Baldwin did not get the King 's message until he arrived at the Travellers ' Club for lunch . |
| 25 | He bellowed at the Sikhs to retreat and as they stumbled back under a cross-fire from the other side of the hall , two of them fell dead and another mortally wounded . |
| 26 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |
| 27 | He flexed at the knees and rose slowly . |
| 28 | But from the way he glanced at the girls , Chen knew what he was thinking . |
| 29 | An aggressive French operator informed Adam that his first call had been delayed ; as he waited impatiently , he glanced at the bookcases , which held first editions of all Elinor 's books . |
| 30 | He glanced at the tubes . |