Example sentences of "he [vb past] at " in BNC.

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1 An' I looked at Mr Dysart an' 'e looked at me and we both knew what 'ad 'appened without going to see .
2 Well , 'e become top scorer o' centuries when 'e was 42 and went on to 197 of 'em before 'e retired at 51 .
3 Anselm had known Hugh as papal legate in France when he was abbot of Bec , but his close association with him came at a moment when he was in a very perplexing situation .
4 And that was how her love for him felt at the moment — as cheap and useless as a dollar .
5 In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception .
6 It was not the only mistake he made at Swindon Town .
7 He made at least 5 million workers unhappy but if his actions make the unemployed happy because they now can get jobs , his bitter medicine will have been worthwhile .
8 Most nights he made at least one trip out here , and each time he learned nothing .
9 His more general position is perhaps best summed up by an extract from the speech he made at 3.10 in the morning of 20 May 1992 during the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill .
10 That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . "
11 He made at least 5 WORLD class saves , the best to deny Noel Whelan .
12 The drawings he made at various ports of call provide the main burden of this show arranged by the Goethe-Institut .
13 Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals .
14 He lived at the settlement for helping London boys , Cambridge House .
15 He lived at a very difficult time ; they wanted him back at La Scala , but there was always the possibility that Toscanini would return .
16 It seemed he lived at home with his widowed mother and , following a fight with her , he had picked up an axe and killed her .
17 Take the easy path to the summit from the car park at Newton-under-Roseberry and admire the magnificent panoramic views of coast and countryside , just as Cook himself must have done when he lived at Aireyholme Farm below the summit .
18 However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) .
19 For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 .
20 Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site .
21 In Wasmes he lived at first with a baker called Jean-Baptiste Denis and his wife Esther .
22 Outside the village rises the noble hill of Lewesdon , neighbouring peak to Pilsdon Pen , beloved of Wordsworth when he lived at Racedown and first began to dedicate his life to poetry .
23 They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’
24 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 .
25 He lived at Regent 's Park .
26 For a number of years prior to his death he lived at 150B , High Street , Margate , a property which he owned .
27 I can tell you that he lived at number forty-one I think , yes forty- one if , if you know if you want any confirmation , that is correct .
28 Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side .
29 From then on he lived at Place , assisting his mother , who lived until 1842 , in running her property .
30 In London he lived at Campden Hill Gardens and later at Ampthill Square .
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