Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as Gabriel walked away , the Mason was heard to say loudly , ‘ I hope you keep him tied up at night . |
| 2 | He was strongly tempted to stay on the train and take his chance but remembering the man he had seen the Railway Police arrest he got off at Lichtenberg and bought a ticket at the machine . |
| 3 | He gazed up at Cornelius through the unfractured lens of his spectacles . |
| 4 | Ivan 's eyes opened ; he gazed up at Rakovsky . |
| 5 | When he woke he gazed up at Dot almost as though he knew her , yet she could n't be sure if he really saw her , for his eyes had a distant faraway look like a sailor in the Navy staring across the Pacific seas . |
| 6 | Wolsey 's hard eyes softened as he gazed back at Benjamin . |
| 7 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 8 | I mean , the so-called solicitor he found out at Saint-Maxime was a boy , hardly even qualified . |
| 9 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 10 | He peered down at Ralph and said , |
| 11 | He peered down at Mrs Fletcher 's crumpled list . |
| 12 | Three times in December he stopped over at Amsterdam airport , bound for Ghana and Switzerland and back to Paramaribo . |
| 13 | He stopped off at Dingwall for a sketch or two and rejoined the train in Inverness . |
| 14 | When he staggered out at Swiss Cottage the youngest and tallest of them went to the door , apparently to check that he did not re-enter the train . |
| 15 | He had played flanker for his club , Glasgow High-Kelvinside , and no.8 for Glasgow Under-21s , but had become thoroughly established as a lock , the position he played in at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow , where he benefited from the guidance of the school coach , Peter Billington , for Scottish Schools against Ireland and England in 1985 , for his senior clubs side and for Glasgow at senior district level . |
| 16 | Mr Knight , who angered colleagues when he lashed out at homosexuals by saying ‘ Stop sodomy ’ during the General Election campaign last year , said the gay issue had played a part in his decision . |
| 17 | He made a big difference when he came on at Loftus Road . |
| 18 | I wrote a note to Leon , left it on the hall table for him to find when he came down at God knows what time , and went into breakfast . |
| 19 | Holmes went out for the morning , but he came back at lunch-time . |
| 20 | He came back at Monza , five weeks later . |
| 21 | Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ? |
| 22 | I mean see last night , we went to bed last night , he came in at noon did n't he ? |
| 23 | So devoted was Meirion that when he came in at dawn once , to get the boilers going , he tripped on a pipe in the shunting shed and broke his forearm . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you mean when he came in at dawn ? ’ she breathed provocatively . |
| 25 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 26 | After his first phone call he turned up at Lynsey 's north London home only hours later . |
| 27 | He turned up at Michael 's door at half four . |
| 28 | Anyway , he was told that he was no longer being considered for flying , and when he turned up at Bourn he was an ordinary AC2 , with no flash in his cap , and was put on General Duties , which seemed to consist , most of the time , of cleaning out the ablutions . |
| 29 | I must admit I did n't remember Neil from those Yeovil days when he turned up at Taunton as our newcomer in 1986 , ’ said Robinson . |
| 30 | In the summer of 1923 he turned out at inside-right for the local police in their fixture against the lawyers . |