Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals .
2 They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’
3 Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side .
4 He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead .
5 About to leave the room with the intention of driving immediately away , he checked at a slight sound by the open door to the outside and looked around .
6 True to form , he attacked at an unexpected moment .
7 He winked at the other man who was watching Oliver sullenly .
8 Richard Roberts seized the opportunity to contract with landowners for the purchase of their wood and furze crop , which he sold at a handsome profit to the tinners .
9 Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy .
10 Slowly raising his head , Ross stared down at his wife , his grey eyes stormy with passion as he gazed at the blonde hair forming a golden halo about her head , and the creamy skin of her naked body , gleaming in the light of the soft lamps .
11 He gazed at the deep reds , purples and blues that dominated the central figure in the painting , feeling certain he 'd seen the image somewhere before .
12 He gazed at the two scraps of blue thread and the single button as if they were the contents of Aladdin 's cave and then turned admiring eyes on Melissa .
13 He gazed at the two Sub-prioresses who were staring fixedly at him .
14 He looked down , and as he gazed at the sleeping child his eyes glittered with what looked suspiciously like unshed tears .
15 ‘ He 's wonderful , ’ he gasped , as he gazed at the little face and held each tiny hand , studying the miniature nails in wonderment .
16 Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ .
17 He gazed at the assembled company .
18 He gazed at the slim , stilted legs of typists and shop assistants , hurrying to their low-calorie lunches .
19 He gazed at an ineffable , agonizing radiance which only he could perceive , banishing whatever throwback emotions the brew had triggered .
20 Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier .
21 Beating Bowe , whom he defeated at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , is clearly next on his list of priorities and a fight in Glasgow 's Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre , which has proved itself an ideal venue for world title contests , could be a possibility .
22 The animal , alarmed by such rapid movement , now sprang to his full height , his great unsheathed paws beating the air as he strained at the massive steel collar around his neck .
23 In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London .
24 He peered at the long list .
25 Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank .
26 ‘ Pardon ? ’ as he peered at the smaller hump .
27 He peered at the tangled convulsions in the Daemon card .
28 He stopped at a small , quiet pub and bought a meal , then went on again .
29 After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey .
30 He stopped at a little roadside inn and found inside an old woman at work with a spinning wheel , like ‘ a dark silhouette out of a fairy tale ’ , and beyond her , through the window , the clear sky and a path through the delicate green , and geese pecking in the grass .
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