Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 2 | She did n't want to hear what he would say , did n't want to compound this foolishness with more folly , did n't want to hear him gloat at her easy capitulation . |
| 3 | She had been walking slowly back to the terrace doors with him jogging at her elbow . |
| 4 | Too often she had caught him looking at her breasts . |
| 5 | Culley imagined him looking at his notes . |
| 6 | She saw him look at his watch again . |
| 7 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
| 8 | ’ As an extra inducement , Sergia , we could allow him to stare at your breasts for a while each day . ’ |
| 9 | We knew he was coming because we could see him calling at our neighbours in the yard first . |
| 10 | It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 11 | Philip saw him staring at his Dad 's swimming trophies . |
| 12 | He it was who had pressed for the creation of Christ Church parish , and he became its first incumbent ; Benjamin and Elizabeth had the singular distinction of having him officiate at their marriage — poor surroundings , then , but in the presence of a minister of great reputation . |
| 13 | On 22 April the American Relief Administration wanted to clear a shipment to Patriarch Tikhon for him to distribute at his discretion . |
| 14 | The desire burning inside her was too strong , and she returned his kiss , hearing him moan at her response . |
| 15 | She had not seen him arrive at her home , since she had not known who he was when they had encountered each other in the garden — but she had seen him leave . |
| 16 | ‘ She was most surprised to see him standing at her door , dripping wet and covered in leaves from the pool . ’ |
| 17 | She spun round , startled , at the sound of Jake 's voice , to find him standing at her elbow , blue eyes dark with condemnation as they looked down into her face . |
| 18 | The path I took ran past Mr Frankland 's house , and I saw him standing at his gate . |
| 19 | My fiancé 's brother plays the organ at his local church in Yorkshire and we 'd love to have him play at our wedding next year in Poole . |
| 20 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 21 | She resisted the thought that she liked the idea of him sitting at her kitchen table . |
| 22 | There was still enough of the egotistical writer in him to protest at its destruction . |
| 23 | The brickwork exploded in dust and flying shards of clay , which stung Weaver 's eyes , making him rub at his face with the back of his hand . |
| 24 | To Norman Cook the success of records like that and music such as En Vogue 's ‘ Lies ’ , music he plays at his ‘ Ted Free Zone ’ night in Brighton , signals the end of the uptempo madness that was house . |
| 25 | Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’ |
| 26 | Predictably , he chortled at his own execrable pun . |
| 27 | He whipped at his horse with the reins and stared at the wood ahead , trying to drag it closer by sheer willpower . |
| 28 | But when it stopped he lunged at her face with a jagged edged knife . |
| 29 | Looked very dangerous there , he got at his left full back , er the sad thing from Shrewsbury 's point of view is that he keeps getting down that right wing and he keeps getting crosses in . |
| 30 | He got at our chairman too and he left with a couple of the others . |