Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winner of five of his six races as a novice last season and probably an unlucky loser of the other , where he made mistakes at two consecutive hurdles , Morley Street was ridden with considerable discretion by Jimmy Frost , who brought him on the scene with a double handful between the last two flights , jumping to the front at the last , which he hit quite hard . |
| 2 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 3 | And he had assistants at each yard you see . |
| 4 | But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top . |
| 5 | In the case of Geoffrey de Lusignan at least , this enforced vow was speedily fulfilled , since he reached Outremer at some date during the summer of 1188 . |
| 6 | Cain Macdonald had threatened to shoot himself and anyone who came near , when he called police at 2.00 a.m. this morning . |