Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 2 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 3 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 4 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 5 | He explains that an Englishman he knew at Czech radio used always to get the usual toast na zdrave ( health ) wrong , confusing it with nadraži , meaning ‘ railway station ’ . |
| 6 | But it was Emlyn Williams he conquered at that stage and Emlyn Williams mattered . |
| 7 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 8 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 9 | ‘ Well that 's the way things are goin' over here , and that 's the way he sees it goin' in the future , under the Government constraints he outlined at that meetin' . ’ |
| 10 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 11 | Grant felt light-headed , but he could not tell whether it was due to the drug taking effect , or the happiness he felt at this news . |
| 12 | He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . |
| 13 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 14 | you go and have a look at that one in the bathroom any way he looked at that mark , so if it was any thing |
| 15 | He had two substantial houses ( in London he lived at 27 Queen 's Gate until 1913 , when he bought 93 Eaton Square , a still larger house with — an uncharacteristic touch for Baldwin — a more fashionable address ) and plenty of money with which to run them and do anything else he wanted . |
| 16 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 17 | Andy Caddick ( ‘ He 'll get a few 0 for 70s , that will be the real test of temperament , ’ Cottam had said ) maybe has n't sustained the outstanding promise he showed at 2nd XI level last summer . |
| 18 | The speech he delivered at Labour Party 's headquarters in Walworth Road , at the moment he had confidently expected to be entering Downing St in triumph , was the most moving I have heard from any British politician since Churchill . |
| 19 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |