Example sentences of "at his [noun] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 He looked at his watch again and wondered if it was time to intervene .
2 Plummer looked at his watch again and sighed .
3 When Nathaniel Sherman awoke and saw where he was , he had looked at his wife shamefacedly and agreed immediately to her request to be driven to the imperial capital at Hue where the emperor of Annam was due to celebrate the Tet festival the following day .
4 He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become .
5 He looked at me and then sucked at his pipe again and shrugged his shoulders .
6 Jack dabbed at his chin again and went to the window to watch for Charlie .
7 THE family of a father mown down by a suspected drink-driver wept at his funeral yesterday and spoke of forgiveness .
8 There was a presence at his side now and he saw in surprise that it was Barbara .
9 He carried on ripping and tearing at his legs relentlessly and with sickening ferocity , even drawing blood at times .
10 Moreover , he was chuckling and making humorous observations to Fleury in Hindustani , his eyes gleaming as black as anthracite , pointing at his neck occasionally and shaking his head , as if over an unusually successful jest .
11 He felt an urge to cup them in his hands , but gulped at his beer savagely and prised his eyes away .
12 I laughed at his coat once and he pushed me off a bar stool . ’
13 He looked at his son again and smiled , pleased by what he saw .
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