Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The next day he appeared at the Uxbridge Magistrates ’ Court where he admitted having the drug in his possession . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then he started to cough , forced himself to control the tickle he felt at the back of his throat . |
| 12 | Otherwise it was added at the table — or to the glass of water he drank at the lectern . |
| 13 | Late one night he appeared at the sitting-room door , pale and shaking , crying , ‘ Compeyson , she 's there ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | with my bill , bill , bill he knocked at the door with a rat a tat |
| 17 | It was around this time that Seth began a new romance , with Susan Schilling , a preacher 's daughter he met at the dentist 's . |
| 18 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 19 | Mary 's loveliness , then , as she lifted her heavy skirts to seem to skim up the steep wood by the cunning of lightly indented sheep paths , was supported on a diet , a regime of exercise and a purity of mountain air ionised by the nearness to the sea ; it was also — according to Wordsworth — nourished on the place itself and the people and life lived simply there — a life he placed at the heart of the Romantic Movement . |
| 20 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Louis van Tilburg , research curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam commented : ‘ On the basis of the photos we have been able to inspect we are confident that the six drawings do not fit within the oeuvre of Van Gogh and do not correspond in any way with the graphic style he developed at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ We told him it was a holiday in case he blabbed at the border , ’ his parents explained . |
| 22 | But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images . |
| 23 | The last thing he needed at the moment was an outraged husband on the warpath . |
| 24 | His pamphlet on modern conservatism ( Conservative Beliefs , 1924 ) called for an end to class warfare and dwelt on the need for reconciliation in the context of a shared reverence for British political tradition , as did , in a less philosophical vein , the book he wrote at the end of the war with his friend George Lloyd ( The Great Opportunity , 1918 ) . |
| 25 | I am satisfied that the deceased encouraged the plaintiff in the belief that all the property he possessed at the date of his death would pass to her , and I do not consider that the fact that he made certain gifts during his lifetime , and indicated a wish to make others , including the gift of a legacy to the plaintiff 's son is inconsistent with such a belief . |
| 26 | After the show he yelled at the researcher , ‘ You betrayed me — you broke our word , you promised we would n't talk about sex symbols , ’ and left the building . |
| 27 | Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’ |
| 28 | Mortimer reholstered his gun , satisfied at a job well done , and striving to contain the excitement he felt at the combat . |
| 29 | He had the same aura of privacy that a person at prayer has , the same do-not-touch-me signal of adults that the children recognised , it was in the rigidity of the crouching figure , in the way he stared at the stream without seeing it . |
| 30 | But from the way he glanced at the girls , Chen knew what he was thinking . |