Example sentences of "he [vb past] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he avoided borrowing at penal rates of interest . |
| 2 | Bill 's voice gave nothing away but Kelly noticed that he avoided looking at her as he gave them their orders . |
| 3 | He stopped frowning at once and smiled down at me . |
| 4 | He stopped prowling at last , and dropped into one of the easy chairs facing me . |
| 5 | He stopped crying at once and went to get his pyjamas and his tortoise box . |
| 6 | The third source of signals , autonomic nervous activities , was first noticed by Darwin , although their nervous control was not then known ; he instanced shivering at times of fear in humans . |
| 7 | He began hacking at the ice on the gauges and the air intakes . |
| 8 | At one stage , chief designer Geoff Lawson felt his job was so much at risk that he began looking at houses in the Essex area and making arrangements to move his family . |
| 9 | Then the phone rang and he began screaming at her , ‘ Get out of here , get out of here ! |
| 10 | After attacking the Foreign Secretary , he began shouting at Mr Hurd again and again as Mr Hurd attempted to reply . |
| 11 | That though , is recent history for Britain 's oldest active cricketer , he began playing at the age of 8 in 1910 . |
| 12 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 13 | Frantically he began tearing at the small buttons that ran from her waist to the collar of her dark blouse . |
| 14 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 15 | And that was er under John John was the manager and er I tell you Scott come and he started swearing at me and I says , I did n't m ask you for your bloody job , so next er next morning when they goes , he they had they had me walking the rope . |
| 16 | Doug Green was asked about taking part in the INSET course soon after he started teaching at the school . |
| 17 | He started looking at some of the nearby pillars and columns , his boots scraping on the glass slabs of the floor as he moved . |
| 18 | I wakened up when he started shouting at me . |
| 19 | ‘ He started shouting at her , I could hear her crying , so I unlocked the door . |
| 20 | From 1795 to 1800 he was apprenticed to his uncle Samuel [ q.v. ] , during which time in 1797 he started exhibiting at the Royal Academy , and in the beginnings of his career he was indebted in different ways to both Samuel and his other architect uncle , James [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | He started betting at greyhound stadiums , then extended to pony racing at Northolt Park , and in 1934 opened a one-room office in Jermyn Street . |
| 22 | Dave always shaves unless he got up late like so he started whingeing at me and Ann because we got our jeans on . |
| 23 | The harvest worker certainly earned this double pay as he started working at five o'clock in the morning and finished at dusk . |
| 24 | He started gawking at the people in the stands when he came into the stretch . |
| 25 | Born in Wakefield , Yorkshire , he lost hearing at the age of 8 but to his death retained his speech . |
| 26 | He kept whistling at all the girls , going shut up ! |
| 27 | He kept grinning at them as though they were all three the very best of friends , but clearly that was n't quite so . |
| 28 | His English was reserved for me and he kept shouting at me and pleading with me to check that ‘ all equipment ’ and ‘ my suitcase — the brown one , you know ’ were all safely stowed . |
| 29 | Surely she was too thin by far for a man 's taste , yet the one at her side today was a toff and no mistake , and it was obvious he cared about the girl by the way he kept looking at her with concern in his eyes . |
| 30 | That would be a matter of opinion ; he had a newspaper which he kept looking at , and shaking out . |