Example sentences of "he [vb past] at this [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 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 ! " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He looked at this wonderful thing and said : ‘ I wonder if our Germans will ever be able to make anything like this ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | He sat at this very table and , when he was gone , your two creatures came and asked me what he said . |