Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 2 | Within 6 months he excels at the art . |
| 3 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 4 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 5 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 6 | Normally this duty was spelt out explicitly in the instructions he received at the beginning of his embassy . |
| 7 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 8 | At other times he looks at the sky , his jaw clenching and unclenching as if working a particularly stubborn wad of chewing gum while the Kansas City Glee Club harmonises solemn music : perhaps he wants to turn it off — but they are unstoppable . |
| 9 | For a few moments he sat at the receiver , listening to the hollow hum of vacant ether , recovering . |
| 10 | He wo n't get far with those infinitive verbs he uses at the moment . |
| 11 | Possibly in one of the cheap wine-shops he frequented at the back of Ryn station . |
| 12 | During the year the largest project had been the re-decoration of the Phair Hall , costing £3,766 , but Mrs. Roadnight expressed appreciation of Alistair Harley for all the general maintenance jobs he undertakes at the centre . |