Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plans to accompany Mr Major to his count in Huntingdon and will forgo the election night dinner he planned to host at the Mirabelle . |
| 2 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |
| 3 | He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains . |
| 4 | Edouard was on horseback ; he stopped to look at the child , who was about eight or nine years old , and exceptionally beautiful . |
| 5 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 6 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |
| 7 | He bent to look at the fastening , then picked up one of the white stones and struck ; the glass tinkled thinly , a horrible sound . |
| 8 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 9 | The palm wine he 'd drunk at the evening banquet must have driven all sense from him … his first taste . |
| 10 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 11 | He 'd poked at the soil with a hoe to give it a fresh look . |
| 12 | It was a late start because of the poor education he 'd received at the local Protestant school . |
| 13 | He 'd wept at the lack of talent , enjoying the attention of fifteen girls , and had played the hard-bitten foreign correspondent to their naivety . |
| 14 | Paddy Byrne meant nothing to him , yet he 'd appeared at the graveside this morning . |
| 15 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 16 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 17 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 18 | He 'd fucking had his dinner at six o'clock , I do n't even know what I rang the club later , I tell you like , twenty past he 'd arrived at the club and he was early , where 'd you go ? |
| 19 | Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her . |
| 20 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 21 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 22 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 23 | He had in his hurry left one drawer just a little open , and was now delving into the carpet-bag , which he 'd found at the bottom of the shelved larder . |
| 24 | But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long . |
| 25 | He 'd looked at the sheet of newspaper with the long-necked figures and the rough lines , and had seen the type underneath and its story about a car bomb in the city centre . |
| 26 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 27 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
| 28 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 29 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 30 | Lifting his head , he turned to grin at the little girl . |