Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 2 | Linford Christie also runs his first major individual race of the summer in tonight 's Golden Gala and will be looking for the sort of confidence-booster he gained at the same meeting last year . |
| 3 | After demobilization he worked at the National Hospital , Queen Square , and at Hammersmith Hospital , and in 1947 was appointed assistant physician to Dr A. G. Ogilvie at the RVI , where he further developed his neurological interests and established a flourishing private practice . |
| 4 | The blunder he survived at the 15th fence would have sent 99 men out of 100 into orbit . |
| 5 | Moving to the door he called at the retreating back : |
| 6 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |
| 7 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
| 8 | With the milled edge of the coin he chipped at the red-brown crust that had formed between the lower lip of the cap of the bolt and the metal sheet plate of the carriage flooring . |
| 9 | With his free hand he pulled at the cheap cloth of her blouse until it slipped from her shoulders and bared her breasts . |
| 10 | In that same year he spoke at the National Free Church Council 's tercentenary celebration of Cromwell 's birth , held in his own City Temple . |
| 11 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |