Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Rincewind could stop him the dragonrider had leapt from the creature 's back to land on the platform , where he stood grinning at the wizard 's discomfiture . |
| 2 | He loved the bittersweet aura of it all , the mixture of ecstasy and debasement that he felt lay at the paradoxical heart of life . |
| 3 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 4 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 5 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 6 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 7 | He confessed to Beaton all that he had done at the behest of the English king , including ‘ the suppression of sundry abbeys and friaries ’ . |
| 8 | After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 9 | In Aden Nizan rediscovered his emotional strength , rediscovered , in short , the personality that he had relinquished at the age of twelve , at the moment of his father 's personal crisis . |
| 10 | While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him . |
| 11 | For example , his belief that the leader 's job was to set a policy and leave his subordinates to implement it — the belief that he had expressed at the War College in the 1920s ( see page 4 ) — got him into deep water in Algeria . |
| 12 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 13 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 14 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 15 | As Jaq lay in his sleep-cell at quarter-light with the trunk sealed in the nearby oubliette , he recalled all that he had learned at the conclave . |
| 16 | Having delayed longer than he had intended at the barrow , he even pumped the pedals on the downhill sections , always anxious about the safety of the curious evidence in his saddle bag . |
| 17 | You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city . |
| 18 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 19 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 20 | He went through his whole performance second by second , from the moment Westerman had introduced him and he had waved at the camera , to the moment Westerman had summed up , and he had told him it was absolutely fascinating . |
| 21 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 22 | It was true that there were usually two of them together and he remembered thinking at the time that the other one was probably in a shop begging . |
| 23 | Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants . |
| 24 | If he had braked at the collision he would have slid straight past the scene . |
| 25 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 26 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 27 | However , if the accused obtains property on credit but he can not pay when the instalments fall due , he has not acted deceitfully if he intended to pay at the time of obtaining the item . |
| 28 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |
| 29 | But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long . |
| 30 | Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her . |