Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 2 | A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " . |
| 3 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 4 | The Syrians performed the task swiftly , and Aoun was forced to take refuge in the French embassy , where he remained at the end of the year . |
| 5 | He was called to give evidence at this morning 's hearing , but , although he appeared at the witness stand he exercised his right to remain silent . |
| 6 | In front of it was the kitchen garden , which was the only part of the grounds to be kept in order , for Adam Diggory , although he grumbled at the necessity , was obliged to tend it as it provided most of the vegetable produce for the household table . |
| 7 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 8 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 9 | The film was seen by many critics as Lester 's least satisfactory during that period , but it was probably far better than he believed at the time , while embroiled in battles with Frank . |
| 10 | Yet no sooner was the decision taken than he quailed at the prospect , for he knew that a full expression of the rage lying at the root of Emilia 's melancholic condition must quickly overwhelm him . |
| 11 | She loved this man and she knew more than he did at the moment . |
| 12 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 13 | He despised her looks now , so he scoffed at the idea that it could be for sex . |
| 14 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 15 | Despite these pleas , magistrates granted Hagans bail , provided he stayed at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel . |
| 16 | He did n't allow himself to think about Zoe until he arrived at the field entrance to the cottage . |
| 17 | Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo . |
| 18 | Baldwin did not get the King 's message until he arrived at the Travellers ' Club for lunch . |
| 19 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 20 | Sir Frank Cooper was the top civil servant at the ministry , as permanent under secretary of state , from 1976 until he retired at the end of last year . |
| 21 | BAKER SAYS that although he 's done all sorts of jobs since — mostly on telly — he 's never ‘ had a time ’ like he did at the NME . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the table opposite will give you some idea of what to expect : for example , a man aged 30 investing just £25 a month could look forward to a cheque for £63,400 on his 65th birthday — with another £19,400 for his family if he died at the age of 80 . |
| 23 | If he lingered at the end of the corridor he could see the class without Percy Makepeace seeing him . |
| 24 | None of the four phones would ring if he remained at the desk all day . |
| 25 | Together with Simon , Piggy had always got different solutions for problems because he looked at the world scientifically . |
| 26 | Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete . |
| 27 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |
| 28 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |
| 29 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 30 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |