Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1	He even , when accompanying , transposes a prima vista ; and everywhere Italian or French works are put before him , which he plays off at sight .
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	She housekeeping for aunt Bessie and the lodger in South Stainmore , and he farming over at North Stainmore .
9	( He looks up at GUIL — embarrassed laugh . )
10	He looks up at Paul , his face blubbery .
11	He looks up at Paul .
12	[ He looks down at PAMELA . ]
13	I mean , the so-called solicitor he found out at Saint-Maxime was a boy , hardly even qualified .
14	No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in
15	Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews .
16	He peered down at Ralph and said ,
17	He peered down at Mrs Fletcher 's crumpled list .
18	Three times in December he stopped over at Amsterdam airport , bound for Ghana and Switzerland and back to Paramaribo .
19	He stopped off at Dingwall for a sketch or two and rejoined the train in Inverness .
20	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 .
21	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 .
22	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 .
23	He made a big difference when he came on at Loftus Road .
24	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 .
25	Holmes went out for the morning , but he came back at lunch-time .
26	He came back at Monza , five weeks later .
27	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 ?
28	I mean see last night , we went to bed last night , he came in at noon did n't he ?
29	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 .
30	‘ Do n't you mean when he came in at dawn ? ’ she breathed provocatively .

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