Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beamed at the others . |
| 2 | But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images . |
| 3 | He gazed at the newspapers dully , he convinced himself he must be ill . |
| 4 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll either be here next year — or we 'll have gone under , ’ he quipped at the awards ceremony in London on September 23 . |
| 6 | He presided at the councils of Piacenza and Clermont ( 1095 ) , and preached with fervour war against the infidel , for the defence of Christendom and the recovery of the holy places . |
| 7 | He peered at the children sleeping on the back seat . |
| 8 | Late one night , he stopped at the gates of a Franciscan monastery to seek shelter . |
| 9 | Otley called as he charged at the Romans . |
| 10 | At last , Dulé rose , and forced his dragging limbs to take steps ; he shouted at the fighters with him , and roused them to stand by his side . |
| 11 | He shouted at the men in the cockpit to make fast the rope that led to his neck . |
| 12 | He shouted at the men , came into the room and flailed at them . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll see the enemy infantry soon ! ’ he shouted at the men . |
| 14 | At the basis of his outrageous talent and inevitably the root of his temperamental insecurities , was his diminutive height and the almost vindictive treatment he received at the feet of much bigger and stronger opponents . |
| 15 | He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration . |
| 16 | Consequently he suffered at the polls in the Revolution elections of 1689 and did not enter Parliament until 1690 . |
| 17 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 18 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |
| 19 | He gestured at the cliffs . |
| 20 | He gestured at the bottles . |
| 21 | He gestured at the bodies of Rodomonte and Molassi . |
| 22 | A quiet , soft-spoken man , he arrived at the yards in the dark days of 1983 fresh from a difficult stint at British Shipbuilders and it was he who persuaded the Government to allow a management/employee buyout in 1988 . |
| 23 | Baldwin did not get the King 's message until he arrived at the Travellers ' Club for lunch . |
| 24 | He bellowed at the Sikhs to retreat and as they stumbled back under a cross-fire from the other side of the hall , two of them fell dead and another mortally wounded . |
| 25 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |
| 26 | He flexed at the knees and rose slowly . |
| 27 | But from the way he glanced at the girls , Chen knew what he was thinking . |
| 28 | An aggressive French operator informed Adam that his first call had been delayed ; as he waited impatiently , he glanced at the bookcases , which held first editions of all Elinor 's books . |
| 29 | He glanced at the tubes . |
| 30 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |