Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in that moment , as he winced at this new casualty , he lost the advantage that the suddenness of his irruption into the gun chamber had given him . |
| 2 | He excelled at grumpy anti-social males , harassed mothers , and their stony-faced domestic servants . |
| 3 | With a somewhat carefree use of statistics he claimed at one National Council meeting in 1897 that the delegates represented 70,000,000 Nonconformists , on the assumption that they represented all non-Anglican and non-Roman Catholic Christians in the English-speaking world . |
| 4 | He frowned at this suspected future injustice , but the next moment he remembered the siege and the fact that there was every chance that he would not live to suffer the humiliations of old age , and his thoughts promptly took a different line : " After so many hardships , how sad to be deprived of the tranquil evening of one 's life ! " |
| 5 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |
| 6 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 7 | He looked at that perfect suit , that perfectly inexpressive face , those cold eyes . |
| 8 | He looked at this wonderful thing and said : ‘ I wonder if our Germans will ever be able to make anything like this ? ’ |
| 9 | but make me laugh even now , she said the first , the first memories I 've got of new little boy that starting in he looked at this little boy , she said , so , so excited by said with this pure white hair and the |
| 10 | He sat at this very table and , when he was gone , your two creatures came and asked me what he said . |
| 11 | There he remained at three successive addresses until his death . |