Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He merely sat at the coffee counter there , hour after hour , alone . |
| 2 | He was 64 — and too late : Boswell had already told Lady Macleod , therefore Johnson could not avoid the embarrassment he obviously felt at the prospect of congratulations . |
| 3 | In October 1967 , when he was manager of Chelsea he was suspended by the English FA for 28 days for alleged misconduct during a friendly match in Bermuda , where he persistently swore at a black referee . |
| 4 | He just stared at the Duchess . |
| 5 | He just stared at the water . |
| 6 | He just stared at the tablecloth . |
| 7 | He just looked at the cookies on the table and at the cake Mama had just frosted . |
| 8 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 9 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 10 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
| 11 | He finally arrived at a compromise with her , which was that he could have three independent , non-civil servant , advisers . |
| 12 | If it has proved impossible to find positive evidence in favour of Mecdi 's claim , one can , perhaps , question what appears to be Taskopruzade 's on the grounds that no source for the life of Hizir Bey records that he ever taught at the Darulhadis , and , indeed , only . |
| 13 | Smiling , she wondered whether he ever moved at a normal pace . |
| 14 | Jesus was busy , but he still looked at the crowd and saw them . |
| 15 | He still stared at the cliff top . |
| 16 | He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters . |
| 17 | He always stayed at a high-class hotel on trips abroad . |
| 18 | He always sat at the end of the second coach , in the small , first-class compartment with red plush seats . |
| 19 | He repeats one he once told at an audition for a right-on theatre company . |
| 20 | He usually guessed at the contents of letters , and stood around waiting for his guesses to be confirmed . |
| 21 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 22 | He also protested at the general level of unemployment in the country and issued specific demands for the reinstatement of the standing of the Panamanian security forces which had been largely disarmed and reduced to a police force by the US-backed civilian government . |
| 23 | The Rev. John Kingdon , the Baptist minister , had two other ceremonies to perform that day , as he also officiated at the burials of Mary Whiting , aged 77 , and a deaf and dumb girl of 45 years , Christiana Yerbury . |
| 24 | He also wrote at the court of the patriarch of Aquileia , and approached the Emperor Frederick II with a series of poems in about 1236 . |
| 25 | He also hinted at a release of a new machine next year . |
| 26 | He also worked at the naval base at Kronstadt . |
| 27 | Regarding Mahler 's own tempo , Kaplan cites a timing of seven and a half minutes written into the score that he probably used at the première , as well as the timing of seven minutes written by a player into a double-bass part used at Mahler 's last performance of the Adagietto , in St Petersburg in 1907 . |
| 28 | He probably smiled at the dogs and kids and kites the exact same way . |
| 29 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 30 | This he clearly achieved at the world championships in Okinawa , Japan , last year . |