Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a report in the Independent of Sept. 17 Dharsono 's release was " a gesture of appeasement " by Suharto to groups within the military which had demanded that he step down at the end of his fifth term . |
| 2 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 3 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 4 | We were delighted with his debut over fences when he beat Forest Sun in a hot novice contest at Worcester and he followed up at the same course on Wednesday . |
| 5 | The jolt rattled his ribs and he breathed in at the same moment as his head crashed through the surface , like a seal in the surf . |
| 6 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |
| 7 | Only his rash brother , the Lord Edward , forced him to it , ’ and he glanced over at the Earl of Carrick , the said Lord Edward Bruce 's second son , who had now deemed it judicious to desert the Balliol cause . |
| 8 | ‘ Have I ? ’ and he stared down at the letters . |
| 9 | As he stared down at his half-empty glass Billy became aware of Freddie watching him closely and he looked up at the schemer suddenly , fixing him with a cold stare . |
| 10 | But already the noise was diminishing , the violence of the anger subsiding as rapidly as it had built up , and he looked back at the audience to see people taking their places again , Gerrard and the earphoned men in shirtsleeves moving quickly and purposefully among them , urging them into seats . |
| 11 | A movement caught his eye and he looked back at the man standing on the steps of the rear coach . |
| 12 | And he landed out at the Dardanelles , and here they discovered his age he was away near , he was fif about fifty six or something or fifty eight or something and he was out there in the Dar and they packed him straight back home but oh boy he could tell you the stories about America . |
| 13 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 14 | It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely . |
| 15 | He and Sergeant Robins had obviously tried each other 's patience to the limits , but he cheered up at the sight of Dalgliesh and enquired with childish belligerence : |
| 16 | He could n't see you if you were standing right in front of him , but he carried on at the anvil and used to feel the iron he was working . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 18 | ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time . |
| 19 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 20 | The evidence in the two years since he took over at the club suggests Mr O'Neill 's best efforts will be enough to secure promotion from the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 21 | Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen . |
| 22 | I mean , after he stayed on at the College to sixteen then worked in offices . |
| 23 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
| 24 | I said well he reckons it does , he says when he filled up at the garage it were full , he says we had n't got back and it was between the half and three quarters , I said oh I never looked at it |
| 25 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 26 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 27 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 28 | When he called in at the offices of Grubworthy and Sting , on his way through London , they were no less honest with him . |
| 29 | Gilford forged a three-stoke lead when he chipped in at the seventh but first Spence , with birdies at the tenth and eleventh , then Ames with strikes at the fourteenth and fifteenth , cut his lead to only one . |
| 30 | When he arrived back at the hall Bourne was there alone . |