Example sentences of "he [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 2 | She would let him stay at the breast long after the milk had gone and the gentle , pulling movement as he continued to suck though he was no longer hungry were soothing . |
| 3 | It seemed the natural thing to have him singing at the wedding . |
| 4 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 5 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 6 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 7 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 8 | Particularly when Fergie — to the astonishment and great displeasure of Buckingham Palace staff — arranged for him to dine at the Queen 's official London residence with the Iraqi oil minister . |
| 9 | Edging between the two tall , upright stones , Tug heard him mutter at the Woman , ‘ Lock up the car and bring the Kalashnikov . |
| 10 | A statue to him stands at the junction of Seagate and Castle Street , Irvine . |
| 11 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 12 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 13 | Mind you , he shits himself does n't he , cos Johnny Giles was it 's controversial cos they would n't let him speak at the end of the game . |
| 14 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 15 | Vacation time Francis arranged for him to caddy at the Lyford Cay club to keep him out of trouble . |
| 16 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 17 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 18 | In this instance it is very important for him to look at the monitor while talking and try to pretend that the interviewer is in the room with him . |
| 19 | They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice . |
| 20 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 21 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 22 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 23 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 24 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 25 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 26 | ‘ Your one-time intended 's folks , ’ she said — she did not see him wince at the Americanism ; she did not yet know him as well as Sally-Anne did . |
| 27 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 28 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 29 | It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power . |
| 30 | And that was how her love for him felt at the moment — as cheap and useless as a dollar . |