Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’ |
| 2 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 3 | He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead . |
| 4 | He winked at the other man who was watching Oliver sullenly . |
| 5 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 6 | Slowly raising his head , Ross stared down at his wife , his grey eyes stormy with passion as he gazed at the blonde hair forming a golden halo about her head , and the creamy skin of her naked body , gleaming in the light of the soft lamps . |
| 7 | He gazed at the deep reds , purples and blues that dominated the central figure in the painting , feeling certain he 'd seen the image somewhere before . |
| 8 | He gazed at the two scraps of blue thread and the single button as if they were the contents of Aladdin 's cave and then turned admiring eyes on Melissa . |
| 9 | He gazed at the two Sub-prioresses who were staring fixedly at him . |
| 10 | He looked down , and as he gazed at the sleeping child his eyes glittered with what looked suspiciously like unshed tears . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's wonderful , ’ he gasped , as he gazed at the little face and held each tiny hand , studying the miniature nails in wonderment . |
| 12 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 13 | He gazed at the assembled company . |
| 14 | He gazed at the slim , stilted legs of typists and shop assistants , hurrying to their low-calorie lunches . |
| 15 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |
| 16 | Beating Bowe , whom he defeated at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , is clearly next on his list of priorities and a fight in Glasgow 's Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre , which has proved itself an ideal venue for world title contests , could be a possibility . |
| 17 | The animal , alarmed by such rapid movement , now sprang to his full height , his great unsheathed paws beating the air as he strained at the massive steel collar around his neck . |
| 18 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
| 19 | He peered at the long list . |
| 20 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 21 | ‘ Pardon ? ’ as he peered at the smaller hump . |
| 22 | He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card . |
| 23 | He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . |
| 24 | He trained at the Central School of Art and Design , but never graduated , joining instead a group of frustrated designers , which included such budding innovationists as Mary Quant and Laura Ashley , who , like Conran himself , were eventually to become household names . |
| 25 | ‘ Flash bastard ! ’ he shouted at the retreating back . |
| 26 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 27 | New Zealander Chris O'Neill was the first Kiwi to sport the red and white of Japan when he played at the 1990 Hong Kong Sevens — but he almost certainly wo n't be the last . |
| 28 | Steve has got one that he played at the last S L Os meeting , it lasts about four minutes it 's as long as the song he ai n't heavy he 's my brother . |
| 29 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 30 | It was a clean , well-swept establishment with secure stables , a fresh herb-smelling tap room , a large roaring fire with the logs piled high — though he baulked at the huge four-poster bed he 'd have to share with Sir John . |