Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 2 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 3 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 4 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |
| 5 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 6 | Passers-by seized arthritic Frederick Cowen , 68 , as he hobbled from the Midland Bank with £1,500 he stole at the point of a fake gun made from a hosepipe . |
| 7 | MacArthur did not regard him as particularly able and remarked on the disappointment he felt at the failure of Japanese politics to produce outstanding personalities . |
| 8 | With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword . |
| 9 | And yesterday , TACP Design 's practice partner Brian Evans , a former city councillor and conservation work pioneer , showed off the prestigious trophy he received at the RICS Awards 1992 ceremony in London . |
| 10 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 11 | His letter written to congratulate his elder brother Lodovico when his engagement was announced , is typical of the sermons he preached at the marriages of so many friends . |
| 12 | Martin Brundle will return to F1 next year as number one driver with Brabham , the team he left at the end of 1989 to join the Jaguar WSPC team . |
| 13 | For a moment he paused at the threshold , but then turned back inside , taking in the sight of an ivory chess set , a small telescope , a number of small fluted carvings , and the fine hangings adorning the wall , observing everything with a cocked head as if listening for something . |
| 14 | The mythic figure of the General — as portrayed in the War Memoirs — had known , from the moment he stood at the top of the Champs Elysées on 26 August 1944 , that the new leaders whom the war had brought to power would betray the cause of national renewal . |
| 15 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 16 | Because you see all that we 've heard is that gentlemen just before Mr he listened at the door before but of course the front door is nowhere near the master bedroom . |
| 17 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 18 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |
| 19 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 20 | The next day he appeared at the Uxbridge Magistrates ’ Court where he admitted having the drug in his possession . |
| 21 | Hirst 's recovery from the ankle bone he cracked at the end of August is most encouraging , following the failure of Arsenal 's Ian Wright to click alongside Alan Shearer . |
| 22 | Then he started to cough , forced himself to control the tickle he felt at the back of his throat . |
| 23 | In Paris he studied at the atelier of David 's pupil Baron Gros , and formed a close friendship with the young Eugene Delacroix , with whom he briefly shared a studio . |
| 24 | Otherwise it was added at the table — or to the glass of water he drank at the lectern . |
| 25 | Late one night he appeared at the sitting-room door , pale and shaking , crying , ‘ Compeyson , she 's there ! |
| 26 | To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory . |
| 27 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 28 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 29 | with my bill , bill , bill he knocked at the door with a rat a tat |
| 30 | It was around this time that Seth began a new romance , with Susan Schilling , a preacher 's daughter he met at the dentist 's . |