Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 2 | I mean look at Colin Jane , he got it made at , at |
| 3 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 4 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 5 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
| 6 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 7 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 9 | After work in several London hotels and gambling clubs in the early '80's he bought a pub and when this failed he found himself waiting at Phyllis Court before coming to the Golf Club . |
| 10 | But in attempting to discover why the Russian Revolution followed the path it did , he found himself arriving at the conclusion that , far from being a ‘ false ’ deviation , in the circumstances of history Stalinism had been necessary . |
| 11 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 12 | George made 41 splendid appearances in his first season with us ( including the first of three consecutive l -0 wins he helped us to gain at Meadow Lane , the ground of his former club ) and took over the club captaincy from Fred Dawes in November . |
| 13 | Jenna moved and he let her go at once , coming lithely to his feet and helping her up . |
| 14 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 15 | He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together . |
| 16 | But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another . |
| 17 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 18 | Whether his witness against a background of hate because he told we look at the Paraclete 's role in the world or among the disciples the answer is the same . |
| 19 | He ignored me to smile at her . |
| 20 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 21 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 22 | It was still , but he sensed her staring at him from out of the darkness of her shelter , and a laboured and painful breathing came from her . |
| 23 | Incensed by his own inadequacy , he heard himself yell at her in desperation , ‘ Mariana , have you read Jane Austen … ? ’ |
| 24 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 25 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 26 | For just when Gabriel thought he was rid of the devil-man , he saw them arguing at a distance , father and daughter ; Izzie pointing back towards the cart , Lucie shaking his head ; Izzie tugging on his arm , pleading , and her father pushing her away . |
| 27 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
| 28 | First , he saw her looking at him through binoculars , something he would n't have put past a man-hungry shark like Sandra . |
| 29 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
| 30 | He looked with concern at the scratches on Lucy 's face , then poured tea which he insisted she drank at once . |