Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
| 2 | When he had been in work he had eaten at 6 o'clock when he got home , but now they ate much later than they had ever done . |
| 3 | and the traffic and it 's Nottingham and it 's a busy place he said look at that ! |
| 4 | How could she accuse the traditional education he had received at Welsh hands , when she herself was not entirely innocent ? |
| 5 | Indeed , the last straw as far as Coleman was concerned was when Hurley took a group of his Lebanese CIs , whose identities he needed to protect at all costs , to lunch down the street at a café full of officials from the Bulgarian Embassy . |
| 6 | Melody was the last person he wanted to see at this moment , but he reined in when she called him . |
| 7 | Despite the effects of the drink he paused to listen at another of the meetings , heard a testimony from a young man who later turned out to be Ella 's brother , and was converted . |
| 8 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |
| 9 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 10 | Mallachy had not liked the crack about actors , because it was a line that Rory had been peddling quite strongly recently , a rod he 'd found at last with which to beat his friend . |
| 11 | For months he had been haunted by his memories of the battle of Toulouse ; reliving the bowel-loosening terror he had felt at that last conflict of the last war . |
| 12 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 13 | He 'd feel a little bit of pity for his mother and the labrador he 'd owned at eight , awe at the dead pop stars and disgust at the lack of fashion and the bad music played for the occasion . |
| 14 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 15 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |