Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Bobby had long ago learned the working man 's love of facts as opposed to theories and he always made sure to have a few up his sleeve before he spoke at a union meeting .
2 Docherty , who reckons that is a real blunder , made his feelings known when he spoke at a soccer club dinner in Norfolk .
3 There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion .
4 As he waits at a stop-light somewhere out beyond the freightyards he drums his fingers on the steering wheel and gazes in front of him , thinking .
5 Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death .
6 Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard .
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