Example sentences of "him [v-ing] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed the natural thing to have him singing at the wedding . |
| 2 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 3 | When asked what had kept him going at a time when Willie Miller 's appointment as manager at Pittodrie prompted speculation that McLeish might be a natural second-in-command , the defender was unequivocal . |
| 4 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 5 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 6 | This showed him sitting at a desk , pencil in hand : his mother 's vision of what school should be about . |
| 7 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 8 | Cowley could see him sitting at the garden table , staring blankly into the distance . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't suppose ‘ Mrs Smith ’ is the first woman with whom Garry has deceived his wife , and she probably wo n't be the last , ’ she said , her desire for him disappearing at the contempt in his tone . |
| 10 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |