Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A character wearing the Talisman of Ulric automatically recovers wounds he has suffered at the start of his turn . |
| 2 | He seems to have taken this view because he was perturbed about the growing power and intransigence of the Soviet Union , whose diplomats he had encountered at the foundation conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in April 1945 . |
| 3 | At times rambling incoherently ( one observer in court thought him demented ) Mathews repeated all the lies he had told at the original trial and added several more . |
| 4 | The loss of such a man at most other clubs would have spelt disaster , but Chapman had foreseen the danger and the solid foundations he had built at the club enabled Arsenal to win another League Championship the following year . |
| 5 | ‘ We met and he showed me some excellent photos he had taken at the crash site . |
| 6 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 7 | Minton would have been familiar with Buffet 's art , and that of other picasso-influenced French Realists , either through reproductions or from exhibitions he had seen at the Anglo-French Institute . |
| 8 | He transferred an inmate to the newly rebuilt County Hospital , where , pending the provision of the facilities he had requested at the workhouse , he operated on the man for cataract . |
| 9 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |