Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 2 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 3 | He stabbed angrily at the button . |
| 4 | He glowed now at the Archdeacon . |
| 5 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 6 | Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London . |
| 7 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 8 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 9 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 10 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 11 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 12 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 13 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 14 | Charles was handing round the silver tray of champagne , his smile one of pure pleasure and pride as he gazed round at the assembled family in the conservatory . |
| 15 | Angel 's fingers drummed angrily on the steering wheel as he gazed moodily at the long , straight road ahead of them . |
| 16 | Then he gazed absently at the window for some minutes , blinking . |
| 17 | I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about . |
| 18 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 19 | He gazed again at the madonna he had sat beside when her child was just born . |
| 20 | He gazed down at the bunker , head bent and quiet , as though paying his respects . |
| 21 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 22 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
| 23 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 24 | A few days after his mother died , a friend recalls that he gazed lovingly at a photograph of his mother , while pondering whether life continues after death . |
| 25 | He gazed longingly at the sandwiches , Gentleman 's Relish , but he did not take one — neither did Aunt Tossie eat her scone . |
| 26 | He gazed wildly at the neighbour who said crossly , ‘ Jean Powers . |
| 27 | He kicks moodily at the carpet . |
| 28 | He looks up at the class . |
| 29 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 30 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |